Example sentences for: relegated

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

  • News ' celebrated college rankings, which are relegated to the back of the issue.

  • Critics call this painfully predictable and clichéd futuristic sci-fi film a "mechanical, violent military-porn fantasy"(Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ): Shane meets Terminator meets Road Warrior . An extremely buff Kurt Russell plays the title soldier of the future who, when decommissioned, is relegated to the horrors of the slag heap planet, where he discovers human emotion and rises to the defense of his fellow outcasts.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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