Sentence examples for this is second-rate from inspiring English sources

"I did hear one person make a comment like, 'Oh, come on, this is second-rate soccer; this is like women,' but I didn't get offended".

This is first-rate mischief.

Frenetic, savagely funny, this is first rate and witty entertainment.

Nevertheless, as surveys go, this is first rate.

This is first-rate work — both by the author and by Wal-Mart itself.

All this is first-rate: camp has been struck and we are into the realm of high drama.

Second, Soll offers what he accurately characterizes in his subtitle as a political and environmental, as opposed to technological, history". "This is first-rate environmental history.

This is first-rate, unsentimental writing about nature and about the ways that human beings try to cope with the most terrible cruelties that nature offers up.

This is first-rate writing, as you might expect from someone who regularly praises the great Nan Shepherd, whose The Living Mountain is an enduring marvel of nature-writing.

Whether Michael Mullen's magnificent costume parade, Derrick McDaniels' mordant lighting or choreographer Janet Roston's superlative dances, this is first-rate theater.

This is first-rate Korean barbecue, the banchan and kkot sal perhaps a step below what you might find at Park's, but well beyond solid.