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