Example sentences for: relegate

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

  • The headlines at the Washington Post and the New York Times mention that the vote to do so was along strict party lines (Republicans voting yes, Democrats voting no), while USA Today and the Los Angeles Times relegate this news to the small print.

  • Some questions: Why does the NYT headline only mention the drop in black admissions and relegate the drop for Hispanics to the subhead?

  • Like Saul Steinberg's famous map of the United States from the New Yorker's point of view, these maps relegate the rest of the world to the truncated periphery, with such speculative identifications as the "Land of Dwarves" and the "Land of Women."

  • Israel's fall would relegate Jews to curious obscurity--somewhat like the Amish.

  • These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.


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