Example sentences for: subordinates

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

  • Mainstream women's groups wouldn't go as far as the MacKinnonites and prohibit all sexual contact between superiors and subordinates.

  • In a front-pager headlined "An Official's Vocabulary Lesson/Some Words are Defined by More than the Dictionary," the WP tells how on Monday a white Washington, D.C., city government department head resigned after many blacks in his agency complained bitterly over his use of the word "niggardly" in a business meeting with two subordinates, one white and one black.

  • Thus, goes this theory, he sexually harasses women who work for him (Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey), trades jobs for sex (Gennifer Flowers), and has affairs with subordinates (Lewinsky).

  • 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.

  • For example, based on 360-degree feedback, a senior executive for field services identified better communications with subordinates and increased collaboration among colleagues as areas for improvement, and as required, he then incorporated action items into his individual performance plan.


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