first-rate
Example Sentences
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The author is a first-rate storyteller, and here he delivers something we don’t get much of these days: fun—a modern Horatio Alger story unattached to the politics of outrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Blimey, we could have a new first-rate traitor hunter on our hands here.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“You have to be first-rate in your storytelling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Though the two aren’t in the same universe professionally, they jam together with some first-rate instruments Danny just happens to have lying around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
“He talks little, sir: what he does say is ever to the point. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
