How To Use Third-rate In A Sentence
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You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival?
Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
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Rick went on to a third-rate medical school in the Caribbean when none of the U.S. schools would have him, and Carl turned into a sadistic U.S. Marshall.
The First Apartment: A Rite of Passage
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I also learned BASIC to write my own word processing program, as well as make some real third-rate games.
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But even a third-rate hack, wannabe journalist like me can spot bad reporting.
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Samantha was eventually arrested by the police in Barstow, Nevada trying to cash a dud cheque she had been given in a third-rate casino in Vegas in 1978.
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It starts out as a third-rate pop-country song and degenerates into a fourth-rate rap tune.
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Inside were more third-rate landscapes, more time warp ambience: a shelfful of Depression glass; a tool and die company calendar dating from 1967, a wall menu listing steak and eggs for $1.95 and nickel coffee.
Over the Edge
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The real problem is not Scotland's descent into third-rate football nationhood, but the fact that so many young folk won't play any sport, no matter what choices we give them.
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It's a third-rate movie made worse because its plot turns on a common and dangerous misunderstanding of how the natural world works.
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Which is essentially a way of saying that from here on out New York State is going to be just another third-rate state, offering poor services, mediocre schools, and a continually collapsing infrastructure.
Lance Mannion:
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For the United States, the leading spacefaring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second - or even third-rate stature," the astronauts said in the letter.
Space: The "New West" Frontier
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A machine such as they hire out for a third-rate wedding to carry an epicier to the Mairie, to Church, and to the Cadran bleu. —
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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But who wants to hear third-rate imitations of rock gods of the past, especially by a band that brings virtually nothing new to the table?
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They turn it into a third-rate sitcom without the safety net of the canned laughter.
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One saw here a third-rate town of half-a-million people without history, education, unity, or art, and with little capital; without even an element of natural interest except the river which it studiously ignored; but doing what London, Paris, or New York would have shrunk from attempting.
Vis Nova (1903–1904)
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She favors low-cut dresses and third-rate novelists.
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Can such a third-rate human being write a first-rate novel?
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He is a third-rate lawyer toiling away at a fourth-rate firm.
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Such is the lazy refrain of third-rate comedians, sneering metropolitan commentators and people who have never visited but believe everything they read or hear.
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It's always unpleasant when individuals who've worked on a second or third-rate film collect a batch of awards.
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Only a third-rate mafia would resort to such pig-headed tactics
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Why, he explained, would you want to compromise supper and the delicious sauce you have spent hours brewing with a third-rate packet of tagliatelle?
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Nobody cares about Jango Fett because he's just a third-rate Boba.
Why the Star Wars Prequels Are Actually Good (Part 1)
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Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us.
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There is little doubt that we could field a super sevens, but to send a third-rate crew that far, and at considerable expense, is hardly good financial management.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're still the same two-bit, third-rate, no-talent excuse for an actor that you were when you first started out, not even fit for all those grade B westerns you made your name in.
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Sounds like the opening line from some third-rate splatterpunk novel.
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I wasn't shoutin 'things out to anybody, but I just made myself into a committee of welcome; an', when the train pulled in, there I was, extendin 'the glad hand of the burg -- likewise the glad hand of a guy you used to know in Oakland once, a third-rate dub prizefighter by the name of -- lemme see -- yep, I got it right -- Big
CHAPTER XX
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What was dismissed as a ‘third-rate burglary’ was eventually traced to the White House.
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The guy she’s going to couldn’t even be called third-rate.
As Husbands Go
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Annink, secretary of the Belgian Embassy in France, part-time a third-rate entertainment magazine reporter.
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But in those second-rate towns with their third-rate lifestyles, punk had a localised life of its own.
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But even a third-rate hack, wannabe journalist like me can spot bad reporting.
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It's not a third-rate political burglary, it's a cover up of information on the largest attack in the history of the country.
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If Nixon had survived the "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate, how long would his enemies list have grown, and how emboldened would he have become in spying on political rivals?
News industry's depression has spillover implications
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His jobs: distributor of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, a third-rate newspaperman.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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A third-rate bookmaker or loan shark would be embarrassed to be associated with this sort of crookery.
See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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By my halidom!" and all the rest of the sweepings and tailings of Scott and the third-rate romanticists.
A Lost Story
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Brilliant minds with controversial ideas get nixed along with third-rate schmoozers.
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Goat and Big Big Wolf "If you put the international community is a third-rate animation, in the country has won the super-class income.
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The last week or ten days, for example, I haven't been able to push myself beyond a certain point in rewriting Corvus, mostly because 1) I couldn't find a way forward; 2) I've come to realise that the entire novel ought to be rewritten from the ground up to work the way it should; and 3) I'm not sure there's any point in continuing when all I'll ever be, at best, is third-rate.
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You can't turn on the television without being bombarded with images of sex, and these are as likely to come in an advert as they are in a third-rate post-watershed movie.
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He does not want to be dictator of a third-rate country.
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Why does my itinerary resemble some third-rate lounge singer's?
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But what about the third-rate, Deliverance style hicks tormenting the kids?
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Only a third-rate mafia would resort to such pig-headed tactics
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We wound up at a cinema, seeing a third-rate action movie that gave us a lot of laughs in all the wrong places.
GO!
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Goat and Big Big Wolf "If you put the international community is a third-rate animation, in the country has won the super-class income.
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After the best people leave, the second-rate people get promoted and they have a tendency to hire and promote third-rate people.
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Was I doomed to a life of misery, having cheap sex in third-rate motels and cars?
Show Stoppah
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The accusations of dirty tricks and sabotaging of political enemies at the Nixon White House that culminates in a "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate Hotel.
Barry Toll
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They dismissed him as "a third-rate Western lawyer" and an "illiterate partisan" compared with heavyweights like New York's William Seward and Ohio's Salmon P. Chase.
Fight, Vote, Fight
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It's always unpleasant when individuals who've worked on a second or third-rate film collect a batch of awards.
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They are soon enjoying an unspectacular affair of the kind seen in third-rate novels and, often, in real life.
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I don't think I could write anything substantial about a third-rate painter, or a fourth-rate composer.
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I am a third-rate teacher of third-rate pupils who have no interest whatsoever in anything I impart to them.
SACRAMENT
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I am so angry at this appalling, second or third-rate service being provided to non-private patients.
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It's perhaps the ultimate confirmation of what an insecure, pathetic third-rate talent Williams is that he not only feels the need to put one over on his opponent, but that he tells people about it.
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Or is she, as some are starting to suspect, a shallow, third-rate self-publicist who has crested to celebrity on a wave of violence and hype?
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Why, he explained, would you want to compromise supper and the delicious sauce you have spent hours brewing with a third-rate packet of tagliatelle?
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Promise me a monster suspense film and it ends up being a third-rate Scooby-Doo episode.
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The Government certainly appears to consider the cotton industry a third-rate industry at the moment.
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'I'll pick up something at the market, we can have a third-rate picnic to pay you back for the first-rate dinner last night.
FOLLY
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CAPE CANAVERAL President Obama's plans for NASA could be "devastating" to the U.S. space program and "destines our nation to become one of second - or even third-rate stature," three legendary astronauts said in a letter Tuesday.
Moon vets say Obama's NASA cuts would ground U.S.
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All these libraries spend their funds on purchasing third-rate books with the grants available to them and publishers churn out only these works as they are in demand.
