How to Use third-rate in a Sentence

third-rate

adjective

• Trump doesn’t understand that Iran doesn’t see itself as a third-rate power.
  — John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
• CVTs are third-rate and do not belong in any vehicle ever.
  — Ed Sokalski, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• And, anyway, who but élitists would object to a big ballroom that looks like the banquet hall of a third-rate casino?
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
• That is why Amanda is a true star and the rest of these ladies are just projections in a third-rate planetarium.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
• Hart will insult Hammerstein as a third-rate talent and then, upon being face-to-face with his rival, spews over-the-top compliments.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025