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:

Prudie agrees with you that this was not first-rate behavior.
In this way, first-rate peripatetic artists are consigned to the pantheon's banlieux rather than its 7th arrondissement.
It is amazing that Gates has done this volume so successfully and so quickly, that he has flooded the market with first-rate black reference books in such short order.
But then, who would decide on them ? There is a collective longing for someone clearly first-rate, capable, and untainted.
Nobody, as far as I can tell, begrudges his good fortune: Barro is, by anybody's standards, a first-rate economist.