How to Use subordinate in a Sentence

subordinate

1 of 3 adjective

• For Gilman, the life of an artist was always subordinate to the work.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Above all, Napoleon believed that the church should be subordinate to the state.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• And then the third thing, subordinate to those two: Is there a good deal for us here?
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
• For them love is, in a certain sense, subordinate to work.
  — A-LIST, 17 Oct. 2017
• What is a sticky wicket is when partner is subordinate to the other.
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• Grout, his subordinate, was in charge of recording the value of the investments each day.
  — Larry Neumeister, The Seattle Times, 21 July 2017
• Fox cannot sound defensive or defiant or inclined to pass the buck to a subordinate or even a player.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• In the ruling, the court says that Congress gets to determine who is a citizen and courts play a subordinate role in that process.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2021
• The key question: who would be subordinate to whom under the new hierarchy.
  — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
• All data and facts, all judgment about stories and the people who produce them, are subordinate to the mission.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• And if a subordinate does so of his own volition, that subordinate ought to be punished.
  — Luke Thompson, National Review, 29 Sep. 2019
• All the analysis and strategy, as the series draws closer to a conclusion, can be subordinate to the sheer desire of one team to move on to the next round.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• Please don’t put yourself in a subordinate position to please people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
• But the near miss this time should not mean that officials subordinate to a President should be left exposed to such pressure in the future.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• After your boss makes an awkward joke or puts his arm around a female subordinate, look at the woman or women on the receiving end.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Esquire, 13 Oct. 2017
• The male subordinate doesn’t make the mistake again; the female subordinate does and her career suffers as a result.
  — NBC News, 2 Aug. 2019
• Oh, there'll still be room for men to serve, but only in the subordinate roles appropriate for their lesser agency.
  — Ron Charles, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• That was deemed to be disposable — subordinate, at all points, to politics.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 3 June 2021
• That vote probably would be cast by a Dykes subordinate serving as her ex-officio designee on the board.
  — Jon Lender, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• That notice will reflect if junior bonds have been sold (sometimes called subordinate debt).
  — David Migoya, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• Followers take on a subordinate role with little sense of ownership.
  — Dr. Richard Osibanjo, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• In other words, all staff, and not just those deemed subordinate, are subject to constructive critique.
  — Kara Dennison, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• The agreement to commit to Team Number One will be tested by a promise made to someone on a subordinate team.
  — Scott Brown, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• And below the national level, there would be subordinate units with their own powers of self-government.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
• Does the unique American idea of federalism still work, with state rights and laws subordinate to federal law?
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
• The vice presidency is an inherently subordinate position and one that sits ripe for ridicule.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• His behavior was said to include a relationship with a subordinate.
  — Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• In a quest for normalcy over the past few months of closures, the desire among gym-goers to get back at it has seemed subordinate only to people’s urge to return to bars and restaurants.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
• The politician could not just sending subordinate employees to attend meetings without taking more action, the court held.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Roddy said the Caisson Platoon is his costliest subordinate unit.
  — Drew F. Lawrence and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022

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subordinate

2 of 3 noun

• She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates.
• When the day and time are fixed, subordinates are so informed.
  — Kat Moon, Time, 4 June 2019
• Trump hates when his subordinates make bad news for him.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2017
• Because your subordinates in the end will not support you and carry you over the line.
  — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2019
• Wenig's subordinate passed some of the messages on to Baugh.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 June 2020
• The subordinate was demoted to a filing deputy, the suit said.
  — Fox News, 9 Mar. 2022
• So the scientists altered the calls of an alpha male the subordinates knew.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 20 July 2017
• In this picture of a one-man reign of pure corruption, hapless subordinates labor in vain to hold on to the just and the true.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• Then Schembri called a subordinate and told him to talk to Theuma about a job.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Air Force sergeant posted video of her rant about black subordinates.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• From his children to his subordinates, to a poor waiter who would die a couple of hours later, no one is safe.
  — Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
• When in the military, the subordinate in question has access to weaponry.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• Former fire chief Kelvin Cochran self-published the book and gave it to subordinates.
  — Kate Brumback, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Does the subordinate have a problem with holding the retreat in their common meeting spaces?
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Moreover, since the rainmakers pocket the largest cut of the fee, their subordinates have less incentive to do a fine job.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Johnson went out drinking with a subordinate, then was found asleep at the wheel near his Bridgeport home.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• The show that used to be about the misery of lowly subordinates has turned into one about executive alliances.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Many top leaders prize subordinates with the courage to disagree and argue their position.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2018
• Top Navy commanders pressured subordinates to sail even when the crews and ships were not fully prepared to go to sea.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2023
• And the dominant chimp didn’t make any more aggressive advances than the subordinate.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2010
• Nor do the president’s subordinates have the power to countermand him.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• Chief executives fire even close subordinates all the time, one reason the job at the top is often described as lonely.
  — Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• So Brown dialed a subordinate’s number at one o’clock in the morning.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• And if a subordinate does so of his own volition, that subordinate ought to be punished.
  — Luke Thompson, National Review, 29 Sep. 2019
• One of them is accused of encouraging and helping subordinates draw lewd pictures on the photos.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2017
• Shulkin will have to make sure his subordinates keep the flow of information scrupulously honest.
  — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2017
• In addition to misuse of his aide, Uribe was found to have accepted gifts and loans from subordinates.
  — Andrew Dyer, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 July 2018
• That's ominous for other subordinates who have been at odds with the President.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• But the town’s police chief, who likens them to flowers, says his female subordinates have soothed motorists.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Hazelwood and his three subordinates took their case to trial in November.
  — Plain Dealer Guest Writer, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018

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subordinate

3 of 3 verb

• The news about her pregnancy had prompted him to subordinate his artistic ego to the expense of raising a child.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• The dignity of man was subordinated to the powers of Nazism.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• The reason is that each would require leading states to subordinate their own sovereignty.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• Other challenges included the sloping site and the need for the addition to be both harmonious with and subordinate to the farmhouse.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018
• The desire to punish belligerence—and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause—is once again in the air.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• In a sense, though, these touches are subordinated to a broader vision.
  — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• Your notion that our ability to have this conversation is subordinated to the color of our skin doesn’t make any sense to me.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• Feminists can be depicted as jealous man haters who want to subordinate men.
  — Joy Burnford, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Giving and receiving feedback is a two-way street and should never just be from manager to subordinate.
  — Austin Speck, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Crusoe keeps Friday as a servant, implying that the best way to civilize a savage is to subordinate him.
  — Pallavi Kottamasu, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
• Although the situation is sticky, Frank decides to help his subordinate out.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 1 Feb. 2019
• In many places, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• In searching for the next artistic director, the board needs to subordinate MBA logic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• Treating replies as equal as opposed to subordinate somehow just allows for a very different and much more broad range of public conversations.
  — Alex Heath, The Verge, 5 July 2023
• Plenty of talented managers are reluctant to join firms where their career prospects would be subordinated to feckless scions.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• That’s the opposite of Trump’s approach, which is to subordinate Amazon not to the government but to his personal whims.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2018
• The Chinese economy is now managed on the principle that the economic is subordinated to the political.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Feb. 2023
• In many places, however, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• They have been deployed as justification for subordinating those with lesser scores.
  — Randall Kennedy, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Argott and Joyce subordinate these more pressing political questions to a mirror-box exploration of the nature of truth and the unfathomable secrets of the soul.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• The building’s critics argue that everything has been subordinated to its visual image.
  — OregonLive.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The monetary authority is no longer subordinated to the cabinet and now reports to parliament only.
  — Evgenia Pismennaya, Bloomberg.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Schwimmer leads the high-profile cast as a supportive boss who gives his female subordinate a promotion only to ruin a nice professional moment by trying to kiss her.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• One of its conceptual flaws was a failure to imagine political parties, which can effectively subordinate one branch to the other.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2018
• In the years following Suharto’s downfall, politicians vowed to subordinate the armed forces to civilian authority.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Their primary purpose or objective would therefore be subordinated to being a secondary goal.
  — James Broughel, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• That means Alaska's interests will be subordinated to a second, third or fourth position.
  — Bernie Karl, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2018
• In truth, the United States has long used its diplomatic might to subordinate global public health to entrenched corporate interests.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2018
• On the other hand, however, the question of aesthetics has been, more often than not, subordinated to the more urgent issues of feminist politics.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
• At the same time, civic equality is the matrix of any truly democratic society—and that equality is under siege from people who want to subordinate and stigmatize gay people and their families.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017

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