How to Use relegate in a Sentence

relegate

verb

• The bill has been relegated to committee for discussion.
• Blade was relegated to the fourth lead in that version of the script.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• If there are any left they will be relegated back to the AA farm league.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Wheels are relegated to the far corners of the car, and the roof is almost as long as the wheelbase.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• Winter doesn’t have to mean relegating your clubs to the basement.
  — David Weiss, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
• Tokaji Aszu goes with a wide variety of foods, so please don’t just relegate it to dessert.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
• The club has been promoted three times since 2014 and relegated four times.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023
• Some ideas didn’t end up on the cutting room floor, but were simply relegated to the background.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
• The success of Combs’s cover isn’t only relegated to the CMAs.
  — Tracy Chapman, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2023
• Malik’s songs are catchy, at least, even if most are relegated to the end credits.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
• But by 2018, Google+ was relegated to the ash heap of history.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• He’ll now be relegated to solely being a DH where leads the league with 44 home runs, just three shy of the Angels’ franchise record.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• The best way to stop MVP Mahomes is to relegate him to spectator status on his sideline.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The top six teams qualify for the playoffs while teams 7-10 are relegated to the play-in tournament.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2023
• This pleasure gulf is not just relegated to one-night stands.
  — Laura Berman, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Working hard on his love life had long been relegated to a back burner.
  — Tammy La Gorce, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The birth will relegate Prince Harry – who is visiting Manchester today – down to sixth in line to the throne.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
• While most adjustable bases can be used with any mattress type, a few are relegated only to foam.
  — Leah Groth, Verywell Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• Touts, the yelling men who would give out 1-900 numbers promising to tell you the right side to bet on in the Dolphins-Bills game, were once relegated to late-night commercials.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
• But like vinyl, it will probably be priced high and relegated to a niche market.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• Once relegated to New Year’s Eve outfits, paillettes are now showing up in looks destined both for the dance floor and the office.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2023
• The monument makes no mention of the play that relegated Merkle to baseball infamy.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Watts’ new club, Burnley, was relegated from the Premier League in 2022, but just weeks ago won promotion back up to the top flight for next season.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• That has relegated them to the NHL's annual draft lottery for seven straight years.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
• Sainz, whose Ferrari showed good speed throughout the race, was issued with a five-second penalty that relegated him to 12th.
  — Courtney Walsh, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• Black workers made up 39% of the available area workforce but just 15% of workers at the plant, and even then they were relegated to the lowest-paying, most menial jobs.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• This is where cannabinoids, once relegated to the fringes of society, entered the picture.
  — Calvin Rasode, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• The team has managed to remain in the Premier League and not get relegated — a feat in itself — but has never reached the upper echelons.
  — Tom Maloney, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
• But the phenomenon isn’t relegated only to the realm of business.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024