How To Use Second-best In A Sentence
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It's no consolation being the second-best team.
The Sun
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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
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The RTS Index has jumped 48 percent this year, the second-best performer among the 92 global stock indexes tracked by Bloomberg.
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The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here.
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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
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All this against a club who had boasted the second-best defence in the Championship.
Times, Sunday Times
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City arrived boasting the second-best defensive record in the Championship.
The Sun
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Tell him that knowing he has secrets on his camera makes you feel second-best and that you need reassurance.
The Sun
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I cut my hair on a whim, losing my second-best feature in a few snips.
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he came off second-best
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The slighting bequest of his "second-best bed" was added later.
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The Mail on Sunday became the U.K.'s biggest selling Sunday paper and The Sunday Mirror the best-selling "red-top" tabloid and second-best seller overall in the wake of the News of the World closure, although the market in general continues to decline.
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That one bonus point adds to the two he collects for being deemed the Knights' second-best player on the day by the Evening Press, and his treble haul takes him back to joint-top of the standings alongside Scott Rhodes.
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All in all, it was a staggeringly inept performance from a man claimed to be our second-best match official.
The Sun
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I like live music: for me, records are definitely second-best.
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So I'm checking my hit counter, seeing if I'd bested yesterday's second-best-ever performance, when - whoa!
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his second-best bed
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Her old scarf, purple rayon printed with black flowers, she would demote to second-best.
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The newspaper called her debut album Under the Surface the second-best album of the decade.
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The team with the second-best record took the title eight times.
DealBook
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HSBC's investment banking division suffered a fall in profits year-on-year but still had its second-best six months in history and is now hiring 400 more staff, its head Stuart Gulliver said.
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His play-by-play partner had the second-best quote of the night.
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But the English ace insists he is only the second-best player at his club!
The Sun
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The second-best room in the Manor, situated upon the first floor, it overlooked the back of the garden, where there was a tangled thicket of laurustinus and rhododendron.
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When they have to choose between quality and price, quality usually comes off second-best.
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He had got under her skin, and after half an hour she went home alone, not content with second-best.
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Welsch has established himself as the second-best all-around player on the team, a guy who scores, passes and defends.
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He left her that "second-best bed '.
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Do you feel second-best to his wife in life rather than death?
The Sun
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When they have to choose between quality and price, quality usually comes off second-best.
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About him: Davis rejuvenated his career last season when he tied for the lead league in kickoff-return TDs with three and had a 30. 3-yard kick-return average, second-best in the NFL.
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Now Brazilian stocks are the world's second-best performer after Russia, according to MSCI Barra.
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As the great quitter memorably put it: ‘They're the second-best team in the world, and there's no greater praise than that.’
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In our ongoing analysis of international financial architecture, the author argues that dollarization is at most a second-best answer to currency confusion.
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They maintain the top flight's second-best disciplinary record.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kim's second-best friend Sharon is still mooning over Shane.
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Thus, offsets may be considered a form of indirect subsidization, and possibly a second-best, or blunt form of government intervention or commercial policy.
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So how long will he last if being second-best to City becomes a regular occurrence?
The Sun
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Gloucester were a distant second-best as 12,500 Munster fans roared their side on to a comprehensive victory which gives them an away quarter-final in April.
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The remaining 9,000 shares would be routed to whichever markets offer the second-best price - and so on until the order is filled.
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Where this is impossible, learning aids like practice pads or electronic keyboards with volume controls or headphones may be used as a second-best solution.
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