Words similar to first-rate

Example sentences for: first-rate

How can you use “first-rate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Also, a piece marvels at the Getty Center, the soon-to-open L.A. art museum: Thanks to its deep pockets, the Getty has built a first-rate collection without having to market itself as other museums do.
George Will called him a third-rate artist but a first-rate self-promoter.
It was Giorgio Vasari, facile artist but first-rate chronicler of this cultural explosion, who allegedly dubbed it a rinascita, or rebirth, of the glories of Italy’s Greco-Roman past.
And you are not ordinary quiz participants, according to both guest hosts, each of whom expressed his amazement at seeing so many first-rate responses.
He remains the American right's best evidence that a first-rate intellect (and he was that) could see the world in the black-and-white terms the right has long favored.