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.
  • This is what good teams do against inferior teams.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But the Huskies were able to get by the league’s inferior teams.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Rocky, inferior to at least three of these, will be the winner, though.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Klose only scored once with his inferior left foot.
    — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 22 June 2026
  • An inferior record in common games keeps them back of the Pack for now.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the seed will likely yield a small, inferior fruit on a rangy plant.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Just not stocking things that seemed clearly (inferior) — that took a lot of work.
    — Lou Bustamante, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • We are always getting dragged and put as the inferior poster children of what not to be.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Why disrupt a good thing by adding more and presumably inferior teams to the mix?
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2025
  • This is not to say, however, that this vaccine is low-tech, and in some way inferior.
    — Monica Gandhi, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Neither archetype is in any way inferior, is in any way more or less gay, or needs in any way to be a threat to the other.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Mar. 2018
  • These guests would be steered to inferior rental properties, still paying the same prices.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • An inferior pass rush impacts that.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Life stages aren’t linear, so there’s no need to make your friend feel inferior or behind for not getting there yet, or at all.
    — Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The show’s faith in a world where no child—or no human—is made to feel inferior was always implied rather than spoken.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 May 2021
  • For the first time in this series, Bill Belichick has an inferior team.
    — Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Players don't want to play in it, coaches don't want to coach it, and fans hate seeing an inferior product on the field.
    — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • There’s no reason the Vikings should lose this game, at home, to an inferior opponent.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Even against inferior competition, bad teams find ways to lose.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The result is an inferior copy of the original.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That’s not a criticism, nor does the Note 10 feels cheap or even inferior.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 7 Aug. 2019
  • On Saturday, his view was far inferior, but far more joyous.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2026

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