Sentence examples similar to second rate town from inspiring English sources

"And we're sending someone like we're a second-rate town, who checks the box on issues and runs excellent constituent services, but who I don't think anybody would say is adding anything to the debate".

At Last a First-Rate Coffee Town" (March 10): As an Upper East Sider I am not eager to go to Brooklyn, the Village or even West 85th Street for my morning cup of coffee.

The tone is one of gossipy erudition about the famous and near-famous who found the city either a Shelleyesque "paradise of exiles" or, in Aldous Huxley's view, a "third-rate provincial town".

Though she doesn't have any wicked stepsisters in the traditional tale sense, she does have a whole entire "second-rate suburban town" full of sniping single women, trapped, like her, in the boredom of what we'd now call Bridge and Tunnel: so close to the city yet so far away.

But heed this warning from local sportswriter Scott Stinson of National Post, referring to the CFL's Toronto Argonauts, who struggle despite being backed by millions of dollars: "One reason the Argonauts has failed to prosper here is the perception that the CFL is a second-rate league in town that turns up its nose at such things".

Q is not inexpensive, but the price of its fixed-priced omakase, the only meal served, is comparable to that of the other first-rate sushi restaurants in town.

Absolutely first rate.

It's first rate.

The sound is first rate.

SERVICE -- First rate.

Both were first rate.