Example sentences for: demoted

How can you use “demoted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He wouldn't back down from his investigation, he said, and was demoted.

  • In the ninth century he was demoted from a high imperial post to the job of governor of Hangzhou because he wrote poems satirizing the court.

  • But Slate's technical-support department (three chimpanzees and a demoted Microsoft program manager) reports that among the most frequently asked questions is this one: "What am I supposed to wear while reading an online magazine?"

  • 3) Carpenter-McMillan seems to have been demoted for being a loose cannon.

  • Those were the days when you got the business beat after you'd been demoted from the obit page (I'm exaggerating, but not by much), and I felt as though I'd been let in on this wonderful secret: Business was exciting!


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