Sentence examples for the second rate from inspiring English sources
noun
One that is number two in a series.
The second rate is the ratio of participants to all eligible patients (cohort F/cohort C * 100).
Don't palter with the second rate, Detest your own age.
It says, look, you can only accept the second rate or something done especially for you.
The second rate, instead of going from 33percentto36percentr cent, will end up at something like 34.5percentnt.
Are they imitative and passive, the refuge of the second rate (there's no doing a jigsaw badly, after all, merely slowly)?
Though "no Luddite" technophobe himself, Schama said, he was against the fake individualism of cyberspace, the fraudulent triumph of the second rate, with all that me-me-me noise.
Therefore, we propose that the second rate-limiting step is a conformational change.
We marvelled together at the loftiness of the second-rate in cinquecento Italy.
"It used to be the second-rate athletes who cheated," McCaffrey said.
If he is scornful of the lazy and the second-rate, he is also his own toughest critic.
"People think regional theater gets the leftovers, the second-rate performers, but it's not true," Ms. Zimmerman said.
