How to Use inferior in a Sentence

inferior

adjective
  • The judges voted to overturn a ruling made by an inferior court.
  • He always felt inferior around his brother.
  • These pearls are of inferior quality.
  • They were considered a socially inferior group.
  • The dam is younger than the compact, and comes with younger and, in times of shortage, inferior rights.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • An inferior record in common games keeps them back of the Pack for now.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Rocky, inferior to at least three of these, will be the winner, though.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, the seed will likely yield a small, inferior fruit on a rangy plant.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Many things in Europe are inferior to what's in the United States.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 24 June 2022
  • Do the Giants lose their cut of the billions of TV dollars if the product is inferior?
    — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • We are always getting dragged and put as the inferior poster children of what not to be.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Others were found to be inferior to many of the 34 helmets the NFL and the players’ union examined.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The helmet that Tom Brady and Drew Brees use has been deemed inferior by lab testing.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • For the first time in this series, Bill Belichick has an inferior team.
    — Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • That’s not a criticism, nor does the Note 10 feels cheap or even inferior.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 7 Aug. 2019
  • This leads me to believe the homeowner or builder of the deck used an inferior, cheap joist hanger.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Tua threw 40 times in a losing effort against the inferior secondary of the Texans last week.
    — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • No one wants to tear their fresh fillets to shreds, and there’s no surer way to do so than going at them with an inferior blade.
    — Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • In 2015, the Irish dropped out of the top four by fading late in the season against inferior competition.
    — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2020
  • This is not to say, however, that this vaccine is low-tech, and in some way inferior.
    — Monica Gandhi, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021
  • One, for an inferior team, the odds of getting two points are better than its odds of winning in overtime.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Wilson did not come to the SEC to play warm-up games against inferior opponents.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Yet, crucially, the years of using enslaved men to fight fires had set the precedent for putting those thought to be inferior on the front lines in this fight.
    — Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In the past 10 seasons, Texas' record is inferior to Missouri's.
    — USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
  • The chants from the home fans about him being an inferior version of Andy Carroll were silenced.
    — James Pearce, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In the process, the brand is diluted — and demoted to being inferior to the celebrity.
    — Paul Blanchard, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • In both the comics and the show, Stormfront is undoubtedly racist, and views others who aren’t like him as inferior.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • There’s no reason the Vikings should lose this game, at home, to an inferior opponent.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2019
  • You’ll either get sent counterfeit or inferior items, or nothing at all.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Trump was demanding deference from Zelenskyy to show his inferior and submissive position as a recipient of U.S. aid and military support.
    — Shannon Bow O'Brien, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025

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