Meanings of second-stringer in English

Ellison refused to be a second-stringer.

The totally desperate but gifted second-stringer, the order-follower who will do anything for money is doing just that.

KLUGER Kluger (3) is clearly the second-stringer of the Japanese raiders but he's a handy horse in his own right.

No second-stringers and nobody I don't know personally.

Second-stringers, sent to do an Alpha's job.

The second-stringers' 42-8 trouncing of Treviso last weekend proved as much.

"Don't forget the second-stringers." Kuricek leaned back and his chair whooshed softly.

Second-stringer Jared Baker ripped off a 73-yard run and finished with 123 yards on 10 carries.

Second-stringer Keith Kinkaid, a trade deadline acquisition who 6-3-2 in his career against the Penguins, served as the backup.

Teams of second-stringers battle half-heartedly in barely half-full stadiums, in matches covered apologetically by television and previewed unenthusiastically on websites and in the papers.

"I can do it, Dr. Brennan." Lucien sounded like a second-stringer on a high school football team.

But after the first whistle had gone on this Carabao Cup quarter-final Wenger wanted to progress just as much as his second-stringers needed to impress.

But once the whistle had gone on this Carabao Cup quarter-final, the manager wanted to progress just as much as his second-stringers needed to impress.

Sure, Marvel Studios had to pull a couple second-stringers into the movie, which opens Friday in the United States, but it could have been worse.