How to Use relegate in a Sentence

relegate

verb
  • The bill has been relegated to committee for discussion.
  • Reynolds should be back next week, which could relegate Hodge to the bench again.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Blade was relegated to the fourth lead in that version of the script.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • That pretty much relegates it to the back of the big mixed border in the garden.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
  • If there are any left they will be relegated back to the AA farm league.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Wheels are relegated to the far corners of the car, and the roof is almost as long as the wheelbase.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
  • His skillset might relegate him to being a slot corner in the NFL.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2021
  • But a lack of outdoor space doesn’t relegate you to a garden-less life.
    Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Iowa State is too close to Oklahoma to relegate to No. 2, just not close enough to bump into the top spot.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
  • This could be a huge hit for Amazon—why relegate it to the streaming boondocks?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Gao was relegated to spending his days hiking the cliff face and sweeping sand out of the caves.
    Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Winter doesn’t have to mean relegating your clubs to the basement.
    David Weiss, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Taylor entered the year as a part-time player, starting just 12 of the team’s first 22 games, but over the last month he has been relegated to the end of the bench.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
  • Hunters will be relegated to one scaup per day, down from the three that could be taken last season.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 23 May 2020
  • Each year, Wintour decides who makes the guest list and who’s relegated to the waitlist.
    Cady Lang, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Tokaji Aszu goes with a wide variety of foods, so please don’t just relegate it to dessert.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The club has been promoted three times since 2014 and relegated four times.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Or will old wounds in the chamber relegate him to legislative Siberia?
    James Barragán, Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Some ideas didn’t end up on the cutting room floor, but were simply relegated to the background.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The success of Combs’s cover isn’t only relegated to the CMAs.
    Tracy Chapman, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Malik’s songs are catchy, at least, even if most are relegated to the end credits.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • To her, hunting to put food on the table wasn’t relegated to menfolk.
    Alice Jones Webb, Field & Stream, 8 May 2024
  • And yet, it is so often relegated to the status of guilty pleasure.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But by 2018, Google+ was relegated to the ash heap of history.
    Mike Isaac, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Even though most of us would like to relegate Covid-19 to the dustbin of history, there are valuable lessons worth hanging on to as well.
    Ian Kerner, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • He’ll now be relegated to solely being a DH where leads the league with 44 home runs, just three shy of the Angels’ franchise record.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Sure, the studio might be able to send a team of lawyers after Drew and forever relegate her film to a lost folder on her hard drive.
    WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The best way to stop MVP Mahomes is to relegate him to spectator status on his sideline.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, changes in Group 5 rules relegated the M1 to Group 4 competition.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
  • For most of the country’s history, political violence has been relegated to the fringes of society.
    Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024

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