How to Use tertiary in a Sentence

tertiary

adjective
Definition of tertiarynext
  • Headaches often occur during the tertiary stage of the illness.
  • For the hedge funds and tycoons who own clubs, what happens on the field is tertiary.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Putting EVs on the road is a secondary or maybe even a tertiary effect.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The badge itself, the history and the romance, is tertiary, at best.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • That was the first metal band a lot of tertiary market kids like me heard in 1983 or whatever.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Feb. 2020
  • What kind of a secondary tertiary trauma does that lend itself to?
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 10 June 2023
  • If the secondary bud is damaged as well, the tertiary bud, which produces little to no fruit, will bloom.
    — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But Rikhoff sees that as a tertiary part of Romo’s work rather than his primary skill.
    — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • It was replaced with MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), an oxygenate.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Giannis is going to get his, as long as the Cavs can work to shut down the secondary and tertiary options the under will come in.
    — Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The margins of these films were stuffed with secondary and tertiary allusions.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The nearest tertiary and ICU facility is at least a four-hour drive or one-hour flight away, Enos said.
    — Chelsea Curtis, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
  • More than two decades old, the wine has embraced some savory tertiary flavors, such as dried mushroom, leather and game.
    — Bryce Wiatrak, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Awards are tertiary to his motivation for team to remain strong in the win column.
    — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Even better was driving on the secondary and tertiary roads through farm country.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 12 July 2018
  • Something that will give a tertiary market like Huntsville an outsized shot at booking top tours.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The show’s format presents songwriters as tertiary to the pop stars and producers who will record the songs; everything is done in ruthless service of the star and the hit.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 11 June 2019
  • Something like the deadline for a trade exception is a tertiary concern that might not be figured out for weeks, maybe even months.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Roth wrote: Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets.
    — Doug MacK, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • Even the tertiary characters, such as Geraldine, can’t help but center whiteness in the most mundane acts.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Republican Party and, god knows, the good of the Republic, were secondary and tertiary concerns at best.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
  • There are four stages of the disease — primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The Halle attacker, meanwhile, had no such secondary or tertiary aims.
    — Rajan Basra, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
  • However, club-level artists often still play shows in tertiary markets - that is, if there's a large club-sized venue in that market.
    — Matt Wake, al.com, 20 June 2019
  • Many of Jumby Bay’s owners use their homes as secondary or tertiary vacation homes, and the homes are often available for rent.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The Morrison Center and Boise are moving from a tertiary market to a secondary market.
    — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Later in the day, the nation’s tertiary industry index is expeched to inch 0.1 percent higher month-on-month.
    — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • As many of the clinics’ customers sold their pills to others, that estimate doesn’t include the secondary or even tertiary drug market, McKenzie added.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • With a new venue in a tertiary market -- even a world-class venue like Orion that scored big acts like Stevie Nicks for its 2022 debut year – outreach is a necessity.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 16 June 2023
  • With such a high cost for what's likely going to be a secondary or tertiary screen, the vast majority of the consumers this monitor targets will not reasonably be able to buy it.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2024

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