How to Use demote in a Sentence

demote

verb

• Teachers can choose to demote a student to a lower grade.
• The army major was demoted to captain.
• He had been demoted by the 49ers at the time of the trade with the Jets.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2018
• He was demoted to Triple-A and hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2020
• Then she’s demoted to a kind of scullery maid, milking the cows and sweeping the floors.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
• The move marked the second time Sisco – one of the team’s top prospects -- has been demoted to the minors in the past month.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
• In a span of six games, his ERA jumped to 6.00 and he was demoted from the closer role he’d been signed to fill.
  — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
• He was demoted to Low-A, in Greenville, and didn’t fare much better.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Still, that doesn’t mean some restaurants weren’t demoted from the list this year.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
• The move demoted Huang to 17th on the richest-person list.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
• With the New York Mets at the beginning of the season, Harvey was demoted from starter to the bullpen.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 1 July 2018
• The next month, Sheriff Scott demoted him to work the graveyard shift as a jailer.
  — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Five of her six school board colleagues voted to demote her last week.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2021
• Now, the former king is demoted to an adviser of the queen.
  — Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• By the 1950s the Garden had been demoted from glamour queen to has-been, the Norma Desmond of hotels.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2019
• That's why Hinch has no plans to demote the 19-year MLB veteran.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2021
• In the memoir, Jackson did not address the prospect of being demoted by the Navy.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• But in the store it now looks slightly demoted, on sale at 40 percent off.
  — Andre Aciman, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018
• The 26-year-old lefty was the A’s Opening Day starter last season and had a good start, then struggled and was demoted to the minors.
  — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Buttigieg demoted the chief and hired a white replacement.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• And after being sent down once in early May, he was demoted again near the end of June.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• Since last April, the Reds have recalled/demoted him six times, four times already this year.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
• Cabrera didn’t hit 100 innings in the big leagues and was demoted to Triple A for a month due to command issues.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• Mitchell has not pitched since June 5, and opponents are batting .347 against him since he was demoted to the bullpen.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
• This is the same body that decided by a vote in 2006 to demote Plutofrom planet to dwarf planet.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• Next came the 2003 suicide of the French chef Bernard Loiseau, who believed that his restaurant was being demoted from three stars to two.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Once complete, that merger will demote Tesco to the second-largest grocery store in the country.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 2 July 2018
• In less than two years, Bo was denounced, demoted and expelled from the party.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• Doval had been demoted, not just from the closer’s role but out of the big leagues altogether.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The aide, Burns Strider, was demoted, reassigned and docked pay, Clinton says in the post.
  — Andrew Rafferty, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2018

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