Example sentences for: subordinates

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

  • "The ancient texts have become eerily modern in what they have to say about power relationships between men and women, gay men and war, superiors and subordinates."

  • The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" reports that, soon after a top Army general was court martialed for having sex with subordinates' wives, another top Army general was just removed from his big Pentagon job while the Army sees if he did the same thing.

  • He reamed out subordinates in public over such trivialities as a missing dinner fork.

  • The nomination gets lots of space elsewhere, but only the LAT infuses the vote with racial overtones from the git-go, saying in the first sentence that the vote "killed the candidacy of the first black ever nominated to be Air Force secretary," even though the issues that brought him down were discrepancies in his statements about his career as a pilot and his apparent practice of pressuring subordinates to buy Amway products from him.

  • With this directive still awaiting President Bush's signature, Secretary Rumsfeld did not order his subordinates to begin preparing any new military plans against either al Qaeda or the Taliban before 9/11.


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