Use inferior in a sentence
Sentences starting with inferior
- Inferior jokes never fared so royally before. [5]
Sentences ending with inferior
- He had been treated like an inferior. [4]
- And inasmuch as they cannot so live while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior. [7]
- The process would have been like that followed by man, when he does not intentionally select particular individuals, but breeds from all the superior individuals, and neglects the inferior. [1]
- My memory is greatly admired, but his is in no respect inferior. [10]
More example sentences with the word inferior in them
- You don't know what it is to have an inferior person condescend to you simply because he is a man. [4]
- But I think we had better try to study her, and coax her along, and not fob her off as a very inferior person, or we shall have our hands full in earnest. [11]
- Also for fashion we are much inferior to them. [4]
- But if Garcilasso was inferior to him in power, he was superior in agility; many of his blows he parried; others he received upon his Flemish shield, which was proof against the Damascus blade. [4]
- The high-priest's garden was in no respect inferior in beauty and extent to that of the Mohar. [10]
- We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
- And the capacity to understand is as good a proof of vocal intelligence, though in an inferior degree, as the capacity to speak. [1]
- Nobody really seemed to think it otherwise than pretty; and this again was a triumph for Mrs. March, because it showed how inferior the New York taste was to the Boston taste in such matters. [8]
- I would say to them: You consider yourselves a reasonable and a just people; and I consider that in the general qualities of reason and justice you are not inferior to any other people. [7]
- Was he inferior to such as Ingolby, or even Tekewani? [11]
- It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing. [5]
- Is it inferior to Europe in any natural advantage? [7]
- I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person; and in this she was not inferior, as I could discover, to any with whom I had been acquainted. [7]
- And many a time in Nevada, afterwards, we had occasion to remember with humiliation that we were "emigrants," and consequently a low and inferior sort of creatures. [5]
- Another branch of this activity is the so-called syndicating of the author's products in the control of one salesman, in which good work and inferior work are coupled together at a common selling price and in common notoriety. [4]
- Dr. Gruber takes the same view, and has shewn that rudimentary teeth are commonly found on the inferior surface of the right wing. [1]
- Charity shown by the publication of an inferior article would be like the generosity of Claude Duval and the other gentlemen highwaymen, who pitied the poor so much they robbed the rich to have the means of relieving them. [6]
- It is for the military men to decide whether they can find a pass through the mountains at or near the Gap which cannot be defended by the enemy with a greatly inferior force, and what is to be done in regard to this. [7]
- He remembered how, the day before, this youth had said hot words about his card-playing; had called him--in effect-- a thief; had treated him as an inferior, as became one who was of St. Augustine's, Canterbury. [11]
- If one of the boats has a 'lightning' pilot, whose 'partner' is a trifle his inferior, you can tell which one is on watch by noting whether that boat has gained ground or lost some during each four-hour stretch. [5]
- The alliance of the associated press with the telegraph company is a fruitful source of news of an inferior quality. [4]
- He well knew that Colonel Carvel would not descend to ask an inferior concerning the conduct of a superior. [9]
- The guide said that after Titian's time and the time of the other great names we had grown so familiar with, high art declined; then it partially rose again--an inferior sort of painters sprang up, and these shabby pictures were the work of their hands. [5]
- It did not take a great deal of courage to be a Republican in our city, and I was brought up to believe that Democrats were irrational, inferior, and--with certain exceptions like the Hollisters--dirty beings. [9]
- After a short struggle, the burgomaster's son, inferior in strength and age to his opponent, lay extended on the ground; but the other lads, who had not ceased shouting, "Glipper, Glipper," seized the young noble, who was kneeling on his vanquished foe. [10]
- For hours the struggle for the murderer went on, a struggle of mind over inferior mind and matter. [11]
- And, being a stranger, he was of course regarded as an inferior person--for that has been human nature from Adam down--and of course, also, he was made to feel unwelcome, for this is the ancient law with man and the other animals. [5]
- It is a singular and unexpected fact that sailors are inferior to landsmen in their mean distance of distinct vision. [1]
- Why was the Russian army--which with inferior forces had withstood the enemy in full strength at Borodino--defeated at Krasnoe and the Berezina by the disorganized crowds of the French when it was numerically superior? [2]
- How inferior in quality it is to the melon, which grows upon a similar vine, is of a like watery consistency, but is not half so valuable! [4]
- This is high praise, but by no means the highest, and when we reflect we see how immeasurably inferior, in fiction, the analytic method is to the dramatic. [4]
- We got the particulars with little loss of time, for it was only an inferior sort of bar-room murder, and of little interest to the public, and then we separated. [5]
- She turned everything out and began quickly repacking, deciding that the inferior Russian carpets and unnecessary crockery should not be taken at all. [2]
- He denounced him openly as a charlatan--a fraud with no valuable knowledge of any kind, or powers beyond those of an ordinary and rather inferior human being, which naturally made the astrologer hate Father Peter and wish to ruin him. [5]
- A single man on the Hydra was little inferior to him in strength and daring--the Gaul Lutarius. [10]
- The only son of our queen, his people's pride, and in no way inferior to Cyrus, has bled for him. [10]
- The inferior vitality of mulattoes is spoken of in a trustworthy work (13. [1]
- His distorted idea of his own importance made him view her as a chattel, an inferior being; the more so, I believe, because she brought him little money when he married her. [11]
- The future prospects of his family, till now so uncertain, were hardly inferior to those which his vivid imagination had painted the night before. [10]
- In the breeding of domestic animals, the elimination of those individuals, though few in number, which are in any marked manner inferior, is by no means an unimportant element towards success. [1]
- I have often observed that vulgar persons, and public audiences of inferior collective intelligence, have this in common: the least thing draws off their minds, when you are speaking to them. [6]
- Two other galleys, not much inferior in size, were behind, and probably fifty smaller vessels were moving about the mouth of the Nile and the whole dreary tongue of land. [10]
- Besides, she had no taste, and her manners were much inferior to those of her husband. [11]
- They know that most of the plays are inferior and some of them are immoral, and they attend the theatres with head-dresses that will prevent as many people as possible from seeing the stage and being corrupted by anything that takes place on it. [4]
- He was a man of better education than Gabord, but of inferior judgment and shrewdness. [11]
- It is not likely that the original first man would have been made from an inferior quality of earth when it was entirely convenient to get first quality from the world's centre. [5]
- Then the presumption is that he is an inferior person. [6]
- This front-door leads into a passage which opens into an ante-room, and this into the inferior apartments. [6]
- Nevertheless the more intelligent members within the same community will succeed better in the long run than the inferior, and leave a more numerous progeny, and this is a form of natural selection. [1]
- Never take an inferior liquor, gentlemen, not in the evening, in this climate. [5]
- But how greatly inferior in warlike skill were Joshua's bands to the foes habituated to battle and attack. [10]
- For my life I cannot see that my ancestors are inferior to those who are so bitterly opposed to my marriage with Ambulinia. [5]
- There is a huge granite U.S. Custom-house--costly enough, genuine enough, but as a decoration it is inferior to a gasometer. [5]
- But perhaps in his greatness he did not grudge this distinction to a guest so much his inferior, and it was only the gout again inflicting its pangs upon his poor tortured foot. [10]
- The king held him in such high esteem, that he was inferior to no one but the king himself, and the minister of the house of war. [10]
- At the entrance he asked for the high-priest and was begged by one of the inferior priests to wait, as the great Neithotep was at that moment praying in the holiest sanctuary of the exalted Queen of Heaven. [10]
- On the other hand, as Mr. Galton has remarked, if the prudent avoid marriage, whilst the reckless marry, the inferior members tend to supplant the better members of society. [1]
- After he had half drunk the diluted contents of the goblet, with many faces of disgust, he said: "Would you like to know what each of your dresses will cost if it is to be in no respect inferior to those of the others? [10]
- The Mer de Glace is inferior to many other glaciers, and is not nearly so fine as the Glacier des Bossons: but it has a reputation, and is easy of access; so people are content to walk over the dirty ice. [4]
- She has been forced before now to be ruled by men of inferior stamp, and I should show her how the handsomest of her sons can wear the purple. [10]
- If we were fewer in numbers than you, I think that you could whip us; if we were equal, it would likely be a drawn battle; but being inferior in numbers, you will make nothing by attempting to master us. [7]
- My intellect is far inferior to yours. [10]
- But besides this fact, and owing to a public taste not cultivated or not corrected in the public schools, their books do not sell in anything like the quantity that the inferior, mediocre, other home novels sell. [4]
- The happiness of Epicurus was not inferior to that of Zeus, if he had only barley bread and water to appease his hunger and thirst. [10]
- Let me here drop the main argument, to notice what I consider rather an inferior matter. [7]
- If a good dog, Susanna would have got it; if an inferior one his wife would have got a downer interest in it. [5]
- He desired to display to these very gentlemen in every inch of his person his superior power and grandeur, and especially not to be inferior to them in chivalrous bearing. [10]
- The fresher knowledge conveyed by a new, and it may be much inferior book, crowds out of circulation those which have gone before. [4]
- I no longer cared for our own people; they seemed to me inferior to the Egyptians in all respects. [10]
- The white meats--milk, butter, and cheese--though very dear, are reputed as good for inferior people, but the more wealthy feed upon the flesh of all sorts of cattle and all kinds of fish. [4]
- Abel had Revolutionary blood in his veins, and though he saw fit to "hire out," he could never stand the word "servant," or consider himself the inferior one of the two high contracting parties. [6]
- Gamaliel's nephew, Rabbi Ben Jochai, enjoyed a reputation little inferior to that of his father, Ben Akiba. [10]
- This had never been entrusted to maids of inferior position like the Nubian; so Cleopatra would miss Charmian. [10]
- Moscow was burned because it found itself in a position in which any town built of wood was bound to burn, quite apart from whether it had, or had not, a hundred and thirty inferior fire engines. [2]
- This: that the assassin was of inferior intelligence--shall we say light-witted, or perhaps approaching that? [5]
- Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only difference--there is no frontier. [5]
- The husbandman and artificer ate such meat as they could easiest come by and have most quickly ready; yet the banquets of the trades in London were not inferior to those of the nobility. [4]
- In counterpoint you are little inferior to Maestro Gombert, and, besides, you play as many instruments as you have fingers on your hands. [10]
- Oropastes separated you and his brother because he had higher intentions for the handsome Gaumata, than a marriage with the orphan daughter of an inferior Magian. [10]
- This name I account for in my own way, although I am aware that he owed it to his resemblance to a person of inferior rank. [10]
- He will "thread a thread through [his] poems," he tells us, "that no one thing in the universe is inferior to another thing. [6]
- You put in a good inferior article of plumbing,--such as you find everywhere--and add my decomposer, and there you are. [5]
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