INFERIORITY in a Sentence

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1. Nobody is inferior to you here.
2. A captain is inferior to a major.
3. A colonel is inferior to a general.
4. The cassettes were of inferior quality.
5. She liked to pull her rank on her inferior.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFERIORITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inferiority
 n.  state of being lower than or not as good as
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  He laughed; Hareton darkened: I perceived he was very sensitive to suspected slights, and had obviously a dim notion of his inferiority.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
5  He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
6  The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
7  It was bitter to acknowledge her inferiority even to herself, but the fact had been brought home to her that as a bread-winner she could never compete with professional ability.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8  In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
9  Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
10  There she felt her own inferiority very keenly.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  He no longer dares to tease her by assuming an abysmal inferiority of Freddy's mind to his own.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
12  Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
13  The situation of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English constitution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feudal tyranny, became now unusually precarious.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  While indulging themselves in the pleasures of the table, they aimed at delicacy, but avoided excess, and were apt to attribute gluttony and drunkenness to the vanquished Saxons, as vices peculiar to their inferior station.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The invading force, conscious of their numerical inferiority at sea, decided on an airborne attack.
2  The superiority and inferiority of PM machine is closely related with the function parameter of permanent magnet material which is being used.
3  I found it difficult to shake off a sense of social inferiority.
4  The cause of this estimate of her inferiority was her lack of education.
5  I felt very inferior among all those academics.
6  Too sad so still is inferior to pretend don't care about anything.
7  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
8  A colonel is inferior to a general.
9  A captain is inferior to a major.
10  Nobody is inferior to you here.
11  No inferior products should be allowed to pass.
12  She liked to pull her rank on her inferior.
13  The cassettes were of inferior quality.
14  Joseph made sure that he was never palmed off with inferior stuff.
15  After reading these stories, it may appear as if we are, in short, inferior to Cornell.