Example sentences for: subordinate

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

  • Since the classic 1980 case of William Agee and Mary Cunningham--he was chairman of Bendix; he promoted her rapidly to vice president; they denied an affair; she was forced out; they married--many companies have instituted the policy that when a subordinate and a boss get involved, at least one gets reassigned.

  • Does he want to tie his career to hers, subordinate the now-venerable Cuomo political dynasty in New York to a newly cobbled-up Clinton dynasty he'll have to live with for the next decade (as Senator H. Clinton plots her inevitable run for President)?

  • The issue in this one is whether a supervisor's single threat saying a female subordinate's sexual compliance will ease her working conditions constitutes harassment when her non-compliance meets with no adverse consequences.

  • In much of sub-Saharan Africa, women are a subordinate group who are expected to become pregnant, bear children, and fulfill the sexual desires of their husbands without hesitation [20].

  • I have requested an inter-company transfer so I would not be his subordinate.


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