How To Use also-ran In A Sentence
- The company has gone from aerospace also-ran to ranking in the global industry's top two. In praise of … Sir John Rose | Editorial
- He will have to control his emotions if results do not come quickly and the sponsors refuse to back a serial winner turned also-ran. Times, Sunday Times
- Sure, but try existing in the basement where there is little appreciation of the efforts of the back-markers and also-rans, some of whom train just as hard as the winners.
- Their privately-schooled counterparts had nudged them into the league of also-rans.
- World chess champion v primary school also-ran. Times, Sunday Times
- There's little doubt that the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, who has turned an also-ran PC maker into the second-most-valuable company in the U.S. stock market.
- Don't decry their initial efforts, but in the end they were reduced to the role of also-rans in a two-horse race.
- The burnet moths, without the competitive fuss between elite athletes and panting also-rans, just seemed beautifully better at it. Country diary
- This is what separates the champions from the also-rans.
- There's little doubt that the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, who has turned an also-ran PC maker into the second-most-valuable company in the U.S. stock market.