Sentence examples for second rate version from inspiring English sources

When you compare it's usually you're called a second rate version of someone else.

As Judy Garland once said: "Always be the first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of someone else".

Be happy with what you have and be a first rate version of yourself rather than a second rate version of someone else.

Be a first rate version of yourself.

"We assume that what happens here is a second-rate version of what is going on somewhere else".

"It's better to be different than a second-rate version of what the last person was," Mr. Pfeffer said.

Mort is a third-rate version of the expediters who turn up too often in film noir, and Mr. Noonan plays his crabby meticulousness for comedy.

If they fail, the company risks being viewed as a second-rate version of MySpace, the famously open social network that now receives more than 46 million visitors per month.

And although it's great to be inspired by them, nobody is going to subscribe to a second-rate version of them.

Alternative Press criticized the album, writing that it "plays out like a tepid, second-rate version of Iowa, which pretty much makes it a third-rate anything else".

Her argument: an education system based on brand names is flawed and a university branch is almost always a second-rate version of the original, so why settle for it?