How to use "rate" in a sentence

From that, she moved up through a series of similar positions in larger lounges, then in small showrooms that seated four or five hundred in second-rate hotels with limited show budgets

The words "Joel Bandiri Presents" on a marquee were a guarantee of first-rate entertainment

She did a first-rate job

The opening number was followed by a first-rate magic act in front of the drawn curtains

And why would a first-rate burglar leave without taking anything? Why break in merely to write on Danny's chalkboard and to wreck the dead boy's things?

Elliot didn't tell the judge about the malicious prankster, for that seemed like an unnecessary complication; he still believed that once the fact of Danny's death was established by the exhumation, the quickest and surest way of dealing with the harassment was to hire a first-rate firm of private investigators to track down the perpetrator

the growth rate of the parietal spot is directly proportional to the number of injections the boy's been given

Wuhan-400's kill-rate is one hundred percent