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    Use "first-rate" in a sentence

    first-rate example sentences

    first-rate


    1. greatness, this means to have first-rate


    2. As a crowd pleaser they were outstanding for their cause was first-rate


    3. It gave rise to their first-rate (some say infamous) Counter Insurgency Units (SAP COIN) which would greatly trouble terrorists for the next twenty odd years


    4. Since the Rhodesian Police kept first-rate files on each incident the trail of torture, rape and general bestiality is very well documented


    5. Furthermore they had a first-rate armaments industry and needed very little outside assistance in this regard and the political will to conduct pre-emptive strikes into neighbouring countries when needed


    6. They were served a first-rate Zurek soup by a maid whom the Countess addressed as Helga


    7. is first-rate and is recognized throughout the


    8. 1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar like a first-rate pilot steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death


    9. A first-rate example of this government-knows-best mentality for people’s health is the present blatant attempt by some in government to dictate how much and what type of food is best for people to be trim and healthy


    10. Evading custody was one thing but to also steal a first-rate dreadnought in the process was unheard of

    11. A big ship, first-rate, Imperial crew, you couldn't miss it


    12. "But you don't waltz into our system with a first-rate stolen Imperial ship with a thousand crew and not escape our notice


    13. "You don't have to be a first-rank mathematician to recognize first-rate


    14. Lester’s a first-rate, harvest technician, clocking his second, ten-hour shift


    15. Although the materialists are quite correct that tests to prove the competence of astrologers are usually embarrassing failures, the fault, Dear Brutus, lies not in astrology but in the stigma which the materialists have heaped upon astrology, so that very few first-rate minds are attracted to the field


    16. He is a first-rate guy


    17. An admirable plan, Edward considered; a first-rate plan


    18. You need to ask first-rate questions that make your client think


    19. And unbeknownst to me, for the second time in my life and in a week’s time, another first-rate dweller of Pineview Street walked off with my life in their hands


    20. "She is first-rate," he said

    21. His pulse is first-rate


    22. Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, "want to read it? That's a first-rate story


    23. As they grew up, the father of Quiteria made up his mind to refuse Basilio his wonted freedom of access to the house, and to relieve himself of constant doubts and suspicions, he arranged a match for his daughter with the rich Camacho, as he did not approve of marrying her to Basilio, who had not so large a share of the gifts of fortune as of nature; for if the truth be told ungrudgingly, he is the most agile youth we know, a mighty thrower of the bar, a first-rate wrestler, and a great ball-player; he runs like a deer, and leaps better than a goat, bowls over the nine-pins as if by magic, sings like a lark, plays the guitar so as to make it speak, and, above all, handles a sword as well as the best


    24. A youngster of seventeen was cox (and a first-rate cox he was too); a fellow in a torn blue jersey, not much older, of the usual riverside type, looked after the engine


    25. And yet what greater proof can there be of a bad and disgraceful state of education than this, that not only artisans and the meaner sort of people need the skill of first-rate physicians and judges, but also those who would profess to have had a liberal education?


    26. Why, I said, the principle has been already laid down that the best of either sex should be united with the best as often, and the inferior with the inferior, as seldom as possible; and that they should rear the offspring of the one sort of union, but not of the other, if the flock is to be maintained in first-rate condition


    27. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost: rendered worse than unavailing


    28. " The young man took the helm, felt to see if the vessel answered the rudder promptly and seeing that, without being a first-rate sailer, she yet was tolerably obedient,—


    29. Two or three masks strove to knock his moccoletto out of his hand; but Albert, a first-rate pugilist, sent them rolling in the street, one after the other, and continued his course towards the church of San Giacomo


    30. From this humble state he had raised himself until he had become a first-rate artiste

    31. Her husband, who, when he married her, had no other patrimony than his noble probity, his first-rate ability, and his spotless reputation, wished to possess as much as his wife


    32. She was a perfect linguist, a first-rate artist, wrote poetry, and composed music; to the study of the latter she professed to be entirely devoted, following it with an indefatigable perseverance, assisted by a schoolfellow,—a young woman without fortune whose talent promised to develop into remarkable powers as a singer


    33. I established with myself, on these occasions, the reputation of a first-rate man of business,—prompt, decisive, energetic, clear, cool-headed


    34. "Certainly," continued Monte Cristo, "I make three assortments in fortune—first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate fortunes


    35. I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one's hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions; I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing


    36. That sausage you toasted was his, and he was in all respects a first-rater


    37. She said that was first-rate, and she reckoned I would hive the next one


    38. He had always been accustomed to rely Blackberry's reasoning had been first-rate and Bigwig had at least shown which way any sound-hearted rabbit would be likely to lean


    39. 'First-rate!' said the Chairman


    40. You have a first-rate intellect

    41. He had police protection and a first-rate security system


    42. Donovan had filed the lawsuit as a lone gunman with the promise that other plaintiffs’ lawyers would soon hop on board to form a first-rate litigation team


    43. ‘Have you got a sledge? That’s first-rate, for I sent my carriage home


    44. ‘And I think you would be a first-rate medium,’ said Countess Nordston; ‘there’s something enthusiastic in you


    45. was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov


    46. So you had a nice day too? That’s first-rate


    47. In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton's intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it


    48. ‘His hind-quarters aren’t quite first-rate, but the legs and head—one couldn’t wish for anything better


    49. A first-rate intellect, sir


    50. As you blow a candle out, sir! There was a first-rate driver on the foot-plate, sir, I can tell you






































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    Synonyms for "first-rate"

    capital best choice superior fine splendid crack