Second-rate used in a sentence

Second-rate in a sentence as an adjective

If they acknowledge that the devices are second-rate then why would their readers care to click their pages?

Its much-lauded lore, while compelling and among the best in video games, is comparable to any second-rate novel.

I had a few friends who landed law jobs with lockstep compensation, where, within just a few years, they'd be make more than I could ever hope to make at my research lab. Another friend, an english major from a second-rate college, was hired to manage a team of programmers.

"It seems like a lot of people feel that dads can only be second-rate caregivers compared to moms, as if they were to take care of a toddler it would only be as an assistant or subordinate to the mother.

There must be great material for anthropologists to figure out how such an incredibly smart and talented group of people, with almost unlimited amount of money, can continue to be second-rate.

An unrealistic, one-dimensional character in a second-rate novel by a second-rate philosopher.

Every time someone attempts to judge what other people work I think of this quote:It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits -- like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon.

The insignificant time it takes for code review is the first thing that gets nixed by non-technical management even when the time required for bug fixes, last-minute changes due to their own indecisiveness, and slow development due to giving employees second-rate hardware far eclipse the marginal time it takes to make sure we're deploying halfway decent code to production.