How to Use inferior in a Sentence

inferior

adjective
  • The judges voted to overturn a ruling made by an inferior court.
  • He always felt inferior around his brother.
  • These pearls are of inferior quality.
  • They were considered a socially inferior group.
  • The dam is younger than the compact, and comes with younger and, in times of shortage, inferior rights.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • An inferior record in common games keeps them back of the Pack for now.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Rocky, inferior to at least three of these, will be the winner, though.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, the seed will likely yield a small, inferior fruit on a rangy plant.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Neither archetype is in any way inferior, is in any way more or less gay, or needs in any way to be a threat to the other.
    Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Then the Nets woke up and the Warriors went to sleep, letting a clearly inferior team back into the game.
    Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Many things in Europe are inferior to what's in the United States.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 24 June 2022
  • Do the Giants lose their cut of the billions of TV dollars if the product is inferior?
    Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The team that would surround Smith next year would be inferior to the one that would surround Mahomes.
    Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
  • We are always getting dragged and put as the inferior poster children of what not to be.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Others were found to be inferior to many of the 34 helmets the NFL and the players’ union examined.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The helmet that Tom Brady and Drew Brees use has been deemed inferior by lab testing.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Too many movies set in the past treat their subjects as morally inferior to the people of the present, making it all too easy to judge them.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
  • For the first time in this series, Bill Belichick has an inferior team.
    Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • That’s not a criticism, nor does the Note 10 feels cheap or even inferior.
    Michael Simon, PCWorld, 7 Aug. 2019
  • This leads me to believe the homeowner or builder of the deck used an inferior, cheap joist hanger.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Just not stocking things that seemed clearly (inferior) — that took a lot of work.
    Lou Bustamante, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Players don't want to play in it, coaches don't want to coach it, and fans hate seeing an inferior product on the field.
    Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Tua threw 40 times in a losing effort against the inferior secondary of the Texans last week.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • No one wants to tear their fresh fillets to shreds, and there’s no surer way to do so than going at them with an inferior blade.
    Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • In 2015, the Irish dropped out of the top four by fading late in the season against inferior competition.
    Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2020
  • This is not to say, however, that this vaccine is low-tech, and in some way inferior.
    Monica Gandhi, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021
  • One, for an inferior team, the odds of getting two points are better than its odds of winning in overtime.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Wilson did not come to the SEC to play warm-up games against inferior opponents.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Unlike Russia’s weapons, China’s nuclear forces are still far inferior to those of the United States.
    Rose Gottemoeller, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, as the team reported in 2024, most Pacinian neurons projected to the inferior colliculus (opens a new tab), where the brain processes sound.
    Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025

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