third-string
Example Sentences
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Why in the world should Canadians or Greenlanders, just for instance, want to be those things when they could be third-string Americans?
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
The three points by the Chargers matched their season-low from a week before, but that loss at Denver was engineered by second- and third-string players.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026
After Patrick Mahomes suffered a season-ending injury the week before, his back-up Gardner Minshew also got injured, so the Chiefs ended the game with third-string quarterback Chris Oladokun.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that four months later, the bill is getting no traction thanks in part to the influence of the third-string quarterback who has become a go-to guy for NIL expertise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024
He did neither better nor worse than the other second- and third-string fellows, perhaps—although, when Pope was taken out and Deering substituted at full-back, he did his share of the punting and performed very creditably.
From The Turner Twins by Barbour, Ralph Henry
