first-rate

How To Use first-rate In A Sentence

• We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
• Simple, rustic meals, focusing more on quality ingredients, such as first-rate olive oil.
• We may produce much first-rate food, but there are few really good delicatessens.
• With all the first-rate self-tanning products available, it's easy to fake it if you haven't had the chance to lie out in the sun safely slathered in high-factor sunscreen.
• He has the makings of a first-rate lawyer.
• The questions he raised are of first-rate importance.
• It also gets a really first-rate, unshowy production from Rapture.
• The sport was growing here in numbers, but many cutters did not want to travel all the way to Texas to compete in a first-rate futurity.
• He added his two penn'orth to the discussion, saying that he habitually told his students it was better to read first-rate SF than second-rate science writing.' Archive 2010-01-01
• Then they all settled down to a first-rate supper of ham, tomatoes, cheese, ripe plums and orangeade. Working Without a Net