second-best

How To Use second-best In A Sentence

• It's no consolation being the second-best team. The Sun
• She was wearing her second-best crimson merino frock, partly to receive the doctor and partly because it was Saturday night; over this a plain bibless apron. Tales of the Five Towns
• The RTS Index has jumped 48 percent this year, the second-best performer among the 92 global stock indexes tracked by Bloomberg.
• The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here.
• He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled. Chapter 25
• All this against a club who had boasted the second-best defence in the Championship. Times, Sunday Times
• City arrived boasting the second-best defensive record in the Championship. The Sun
• Tell him that knowing he has secrets on his camera makes you feel second-best and that you need reassurance. The Sun
• I cut my hair on a whim, losing my second-best feature in a few snips.
• he came off second-best