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Example sentences for "much inferior"

  • He had made a conquest of greater importance than he was himself at that time aware of; yet was it much inferior to the vast projects which he had formed.

  • Oatmeal, indeed, supplies the common people in Scotland with the greatest and the best part of their food, which is, in general, much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.

  • But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of.

  • Yet all feel that the Aeneid is much inferior to the Homeric poems in natural human interest, as it is much inferior in reflective interest to the greatest extant dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles.

  • Virgil too is much inferior to the older poet, and much less original, in the general reflections on life which he occasionally introduces,--such as that at iii.

  • Illustration] John Bewick, as a designer and engraver on wood, is much inferior to his brother.

  • The execution of the maps in the edition of De Lapis is much inferior to that of the maps begun by Sweinheim, and finished by Bukinck in 1478.

  • For these stanzas others are substituted in the printed editions, much inferior, and, what is remarkable, almost the only indecent passage in the whole poem.

  • Bonifonius has closely imitated Secundus, but is much inferior to him in everything but his faults.

  • The translation of Ariosto by Sir John Harrington, in 1591, is much inferior.

  • They are in this respect, he says, much inferior to those of Lupus, Gerbert, and others of the preceding ages.

  • It looks like the western yellow pine, but is much inferior in size.

  • Tanbark oak, a name occasionally given to this tree, is not applied in the region where chestnut oak grows, because it is much inferior to chestnut oak as tanning material.

  • It weighs less than twenty-seven pounds to the cubic foot; has less than half the strength and about forty per cent of the stiffness of sugar maple; and is much inferior to it in most mechanical properties.

  • He was, however, much inferior to him in reading, and in fact seems to have read little but the Bible and the writings of Paracelsus.

  • Buhle is, as usual, much inferior to Brucker.

  • In the choice of subject, The Fox is much inferior to Tartuffe, to which it bears some very general analogy.

  • Footnote 153: We here lose the almost infallible guide of Arrowsmith's excellent map of Hindoostan, and are reduced to much inferior helps in following the route through Persia.

  • Then followed the capitulation of General Hull and his army, who had invaded Canada and were afterwards forced to retreat to Detroit, where they surrendered to General Brock with a much inferior force.

  • Northumberland was involved in anarchy; and no state of any consequence remained but that of Wessex, which, much inferior in extent to Mercia, was supported solely by the great qualities of its sovereign.

  • Here the astonished Greeks first saw the Spartans defeated by a much inferior number, and by an enemy too whom they had always held in the greatest contempt.

  • There is Sir Edward Dyer, the friend of Raleigh and Sidney, who has been immortalised by the famous "My mind to me a kingdom is," and who wrote other pieces not much inferior.

  • The second part of Chapman's work, his original verse, is much inferior in bulk and in interest of matter to the first and third.

  • Googe has more sustained power than Turberville, but is much inferior to him in command of metre and in lyrical swing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    much bound; much danger; much delight; much earlier; much easier; much energy; much finer; much flour; much length; much like; much longer; much love; much misery; much mistaken; much need; much oxygen; much pleasure; much right; much service; much talk; much trouble; much uneasiness; much wished; much work; much younger; salt and baking powder