Sentence examples for take second best from inspiring English sources

Mickelson does not take second best lightly, that much is clear, just as it also was when he offered emotional sentiment in the aftermath of Europe's victory over the USA in the Ryder Cup, last year at Medinah.

When I start to overeat, I'm really looking for peace, but since I'm not sure how to get that, I'll take second best.

"We took second best, Sergeant".

'I did meet someone who was at the Royal Ballet School the year before me, and she said, "Oh Deborah," - they didn't call me Debbie - "Did I see you jumping out of a box or something on a Royal Variety Performance ?" But I can't really understand it when people ask me what it feels like to have taken second best.

Lady Mosley wrote to her sister, the Duchess of Devonshire, after the death of the Duke of Windsor, "probably the theory of their [the Windsors'] contemporaries that Cake [a Mitford nickname for the Queen Mother, derived from her delighted exclamation at the party at which Deborah Devonshire first met her] was rather in love with him [the Duke] (as a girl) & took second best, may account for much".

Dani Pedrosa won a wet French Grand Prix as Britain's Cal Crutchlow overcame a broken leg to take second - the best result of his MotoGP career.

Annie Vernon and Mel Wilson contested a tight race behind Grainger in the first of the two semis with world women's quad champion Vernon coming out best to take second.

Moira Dunn shot a 64 -- also a career best -- to take second at 131. Ward broke the New Albany Country Club record of 63 set earlier in the day by Mhairi McKay.

He thought, it's probably best to just take second, that feels safe, that feels right.

"I'll take my second best kids and I'll kill them.

(Cuarón is currently the bookies' favourite to take his second best director statuette). Beyond such accolades, meanwhile, it's a significant industry milestone on the business side of things: the first film ever to persuade Netflix to drop their hitherto stubborn day-and-date strategy and release it exclusively in cinemas first.