He bids us believe Him, and believe something about Him on the strength of His own testimony, or, in default of that, and as second best, believe Him on the testimony of His works.
You said something else: you called him a second best.
When I preached I had to wear my second best suit, for it was one of Aunt Janet's laws that we should take our good suits off when we came home from church.
The State of South Carolina, in that day, though represented by an able, patriotic, and great man, came off second best.
POLK--a position he declined, because he would not agree to besecond best on the ticket.
I'm not very young, and my experience has shown me that for most people, life resolves itself into making the most of a second best.
Life for the majority of people resolved itself into making the most of a second best.
Certainly the old ladies had not been treated to them; even Cassandra herself had come off second best, for Grizel was essentially a man's woman, who awoke to her highest self in the presence of the opposite sex.
In some cases the "second best" have been put in cold storage, and they sold well after the usual fall glut.
We pick by hand, and sort into very best, second best, and culls.
In this it falls short of his own ideal, and is only a second best: the best of all would be, in his view, a communion that should pervade all persons and all acts and sentiments, effacing altogether the separate self.
The Republic is second best; that which appears sketched in the treatise De Legibus is third best.
It does not matter whether it is the best, or second best, or the worst who are asking for a share in citizenship; voting is not based on morality, but on humanity.
Sometimes we would like to take both the best and the second best, but that is not according to the rules of the game.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second best" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
