Example sentences for: relegated

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

  • Similarly, historical lexicography--the vocabulary of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Richard Rolle of Hampole, the Holinshed Chronicle, etc.--has been relegated to footnotes in student editions or to specialized dictionaries.

  • So much of what is necessary to the way we live today is relegated to "out there."

  • Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)

  • Today, when commercial considerations put the publisher into the role of the patron--despite the fact that advances are repayable, risks are taken--acknowledgment of an editor's (artistic) contribution may be relegated to the closing lines of the author's foreword, which often grudgingly suggests that the work was produced in spite of rather than because of the person cited.

  • U.S. 66, 78 (1975) (internal quotation marks omitted): (1) whether"the plaintiff [is] one of the class for whose especial benefit the statute was enacted"; (2) whether "there [is] any indication of legislative intent, explicit or implicit, either to create such a remedy or to deny one"; (3) whether "it [is] consistent with the underlying purposes of the legislative scheme to imply such a remedy"; and (4) whether "the cause of action [is] one traditionally relegated to state law, in an area basically the concern of the States, so that it would be inappropriate to infer a cause of action based solely on federal law."


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