Example sentences for: second-place

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

  • Jews' new second-place status in the strivers' hierarchy is most noticeable in places with good public school systems like Westchester County, N.Y., (where I live) and the San Gabriel Valley, outside of Los Angeles.

  • Forbes' second-place finish proves that his support has a low ceiling, and Bush's victory demonstrates that the GOP is jerking the party back into the mainstream and successfully co-opting Clintonian themes.

  • 2) Johnny Isakson, a former Republican state legislator, won the special election for Newt Gingrich's House seat . The media had a field day contrasting the "moderate" Isakson with the "combative" Gingrich, noting that Democrats "see Isakson as a pleasant change" and that Isakson thrashed second-place finisher Christina Jeffrey, the historian whom Gingrich had fired in 1995 over her comments on the Holocaust.

  • The second-place ad-- One Night Stand, Two Weeks Later --evokes a 1940s black-and-white Hollywood melodrama about the wages of illicit love.

  • Two weeks ago, Jörg Haider led his far-right Freedom Party to a stunning second-place finish in Austria's national elections; two weeks from now, he's coming to America.


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