rate highly
Example Sentences
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Known brands rate highly in early polls, which brings in money, which leads to victory.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2015
The Times analysis shows that even nursing homes with a history of poor care rate highly in the areas that rely on self-reported data.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2014
Going from super-svelte to not quite as svelte, getting paid handsomely to go on a donut and beer binge -- these do things do not rate highly on the nightmare list of most ordinary folk.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2011
My obsession is in compiling cassette or CD-R recordings of selections from albums that I don't rate highly enough to keep. This involves very tricky edits: removing instrumental solos or crap vocal passages.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2010
Or if not impossible, he was, at any rate, highly improbable.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair