Example sentences for: relegate

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

  • Since then, history has been through a host of determinisms--economic, demographic, biological, geographic, even meteorological--each meant to relegate the individual psychology of great men to the realm of the contingent.

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

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

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

  • Had those 60 years constituted his entire career, we could relegate him to a historical back shelf along with so many other humanistic pillars of midcentury photography, stalwarts of Life and The Family of Man whose work today primarily inspires a nagging sense of duty.


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