How to Use so-so in a Sentence

so-so

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• Just a so-so first half for a player elected for the fifth time as a starter.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Music soars in so-so rom-com about how a heart will go on.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• For cutting up game, the Companion Spark does a so-so job.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Slow Time ability can make a so-so archer feel like Legolas.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2023
• After a so-so start against the Tigers, Sale fell flat against the Rays last week, yielding five runs in just four innings.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes is coming off a so-so (for him) season but has zero to prove as a two-time champ.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ripley won the match with a superplex followed by a Riptide in a so-so main event.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Take pressure off that so-so secondary by turning up the heat right away against Mayfield.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Texans and Colts simply are not equipped to punish the Ravens for starting so-so cornerbacks.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
• In 2020, a late-summer dry lightning burst sparked scores of fires, turning a so-so season into the state’s worst on record.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The 49ers are so-so against the run and have been punished in the playoffs: Green Bay and Detroit averaged a combined 5.6 yards per carry.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Despite a so-so season, the Penguins controlled their playoff fate this week, needing to beat two of the league's worst teams to claim a wild-card spot.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• The river also is fed by melting snowpack in Colorado, which this year has seen a so-so snow season.
  — Brooke Staggs, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
• Taking the long view then, 2023, is, at best, a so-so candidate in the superlative badness sweepstakes.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
• Schatz’s method nicks them for so-so competition and for rolling up their huge offensive totals in a dome.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ferguson spent six so-so years in Green Bay, never catching more than 38 passes in a season.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
• But Saturday night was a marked improvement over the typical so-so starts Gonsolin had delivered for most of the past 3½ months.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• Things go from meh to worse when her best friend is laid off and her so-so relationship takes an unexpected and life-altering twist.
  — The Editors, townandcountrymag.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The album is a so-so buffet of sounds that get called contemporary or urban: music that could have been produced at any point in the last 25 years, which isn’t the same as calling it timeless.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Even an ultralight chair with so-so comfort will be more comfortable than sitting directly on the ground.
  — Suzie Dundas, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
• The veteran character actor has been magnetic on the trail, and now looks set for his first career nomination — a sign of how a well-run campaign can overcome a so-so film.
  — Vulture, 22 Jan. 2024
• Unlike John Guillermin’s so-so 1978 version, that one forgot not to take itself too seriously.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Neither do the engine and the close-ratio five-speed transmission make for exceptional fuel mileage, the EPA city figure of 21 mpg ranking no more than so-so in this hard-fought category.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2023
• Denver quarterback Russell Wilson has rebounded a bit under first-year head coach Sean Payton, but the results remain so-so.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Behind every so-so movie, after all, is a potentially great director’s cut.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Outlook: Applegate and Cardellini landed nominations for the program’s stellar first season and then went missing (as did the entire series) after a so-so follow-up.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• But complicating factors include a so-so B CinemaScore from audiences (the first pic earned an A-) and unfavorable reviews.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2023
• Dessert selections were so-so, other than a pretty and pretty good strawberry pavlova, but giving a server carte blanche on concocting a chocolate lover’s sundae yielded sinfully delicious results.
  — David Dickstein, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• There’s also that heavily hyped motorcycle jump, a surprisingly so-so affair compared to Cruise’s past, potentially terminal stunts; blame the presentation, which doesn’t quite do the heavy preparation and execution of the sequence justice.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• This fun, if counterintuitive, strategy celebrates function and can add an unexpected layer of complexity to an otherwise so-so room.
  — David Eardley, WSJ, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024