First-rate

"First-rate" in a Sentence (11 examples)

We are getting on first-rate.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is a first-rate writer.

They looked on the writer as first-rate.

After all is said and done, he was a first-rate novelist.

The services at the hotel are first-rate.

It's a first-rate hospital.

Tom is a first-rate scientist.

Among the sources of wealth in Tafilet we may name very fine sheep, whose beautifully white wool makes very pretty coverlets, oxen, first-rate horses, donkeys, and mules.

Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.

He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

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"I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate."

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