Sentence examples for they were first-rate from inspiring English sources

Eliot readers should not expect lost masterpieces, knowing that his habit was to refrain from publishing poems until and unless they were first-rate.

And because they are first-rate doctors, they never lose sight of quality.

He sees it as his job to ensure that they are first-rate.

Political baggage aside, they're first-rate economists who base monetary policy on hard data.

Typically they are first-rate producers of banal industrial components, such as car locks or refrigerator compressors.

"One of the finest compliments that everybody gives to the Kingdom Life Church is once they buy them and renovate them, they are first-rate, absolutely first-rate," he said.

They were second-rate strings from Turkey and China.

They were second-rate against, and mercilessly slaughtered by, Ireland on Saturday but this match should be seen as an outlier rather than a reflection on this team.

There are unquestionably unpublished short stories – three were leaked online in 2013 – but Salinger devotees who read them before lawyers for the estate had them taken down reckoned they were third rate.

I thought they were first rate, so fresh, so clear, and so serene..

"They were first rate," said Justice Stanley Mosk, a Democrat whom Brown passed over to make Bird chief.