Sentence examples similar to the runner up performance from inspiring English sources

The runner up was the guest rooms.

Tanaka helped lead Komadai Tomakomai High School to victory as a junior, in 2005, but it was the team's runner-up performance in the summer of 2006 that solidified his status as a national hero and teen idol.

Career highlight: His runner-up performance in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds, which was a mere neck away from being a win.

Career highlight: Runner-up performance in the Grade 1 Florida Derby at Gulfstream in late April, impressive because it was the horse's third start and first against winners.

He lost back-to-back matches just once during the year, and followed that slump with his title in Moscow and a runner-up performance in St . Petersburg

He was a legendary performer at Princeton who won two consecutive Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association EIWAA) titles as well as his national runner-up performance in 1978.

He'll need a win or runner-up performance to make it.

Treshanda was none too pleased with her daughter's first-runner-up performance.

Top runner-up performances for the Nitros (0-3 in league for both boys and girls) came from Mickey Mowry in the 100 backstroke (55.86) and 100 butterfly (52.95), Madi Corpuz in the 200-individual medley (2 31.81) and Cole Veloz in the 500 freestyle (5 30.50).

With Akebono dominant once more his best results that year were two runner-up performances.

Last month Ms. Tunstall's lead single, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree," appeared on the finales of both "Will & Grace" (in a one-hour series signoff) and "American Idol" (in a performance by the runner-up, Katharine McPhee).