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.

  • Monica has been relegated to ever smaller headlines in recent weeks, and the Globe 's disinterest in the whole matter is best summed up by this week's coverage: none.

  • People like yourselves who in this era of diminishing resources and escalating need have devoted time and energy to strengthening legal services and helping to make essential changes in that way we practice legal services so that we can ensure that the phrase "justice for all" is not relegated to a sexy slogan on a t-shirt or a banner.

  • The dispossession of Irish Catholic farmers, which took place in successive waves over several centuries, relegated them to the most marginally cultivable pieces of land.

  • Perhaps such curiosities will make the book a collector's item, but whoever wrote the text for it at Kangaroo ought to be relegated to the outback.


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