Last night, top-quality works tended to sell far above expectations; less desirable ones were dismissed in short order.

Many markets also moved the show from overnight timeslots to more desirable ones.

Lots of men - even desirable ones - fall for her, although she never seems to like any of them.

Sometimes called a candidate specification, it states the essential attributes that you require and also the merely desirable ones.

I didn't say we were elegant creatures, or even desirable ones.

Such jobs tend to be the best paying and most economically desirable ones, he said.

These species too soon crowd out the desirable ones and do not belong in a meadow.

The message was, do not mix world-class white truffles with less desirable ones.

Citizens may want to hear the good qualities of the candidates but they tend to remember more about the less desirable ones when presented with them.

The less useful species can take over the niche vacated by the more desirable ones.