Sample Sentences forrelegate (auto-selected)
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The little stove no longer occupied a central place; it had been relegated to a tiny spot in the corner of the room. (source)relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification
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We were therefore relegated to the cesspools. (source)
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They were relegated to competing in their own leagues, (source)relegated = assigned (a less important classification)
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It was true that Ms. Richter often solicited David's opinion while Max was relegated to the role of silent spectator. (source)relegated = assigned to a less important position
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That evening the story had been relegated to the bottom of page one: (source)
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Segregation ... ends up relegating persons to the status of things. (source)relegating = assigning to a less important classification
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He claimed that the responsibility for a decision could never be abandoned to a blind agency but could only be relegated to human decisions more and more remote from their consequences. (source)relegated = assigned
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Or I could stay by my children's side, relegating another generation to the same misery and poverty I knew so well. (source)relegating = assigning to a lesser position
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...relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and... (source)relegates = assigns to a less important position or classification
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Because of the organizational difficulties it entailed, he had been forced to relegate his erotic activities to a narrow strip of time (between the operating room and home) which, though he had used it intensively (as a mountain farmer tills his narrow plot for all it is worth), was nothing like the sixteen hours that now had suddenly been bestowed on him.† (source)
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...for the most part she relegated Henry Chao to a kind of netherworld, in which he was not so much a person and potential threat as a spirit that could be scared off by a good loud noise. (source)relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification
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As for relegating it to the realm of fiction, that charge had to be dropped.† (source)
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To be a lamppost and stand holding a lantern till dawn-which is the only work your world relegates me to and the only work it's going to get.† (source)
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Unable to attract a national distributor, the Shooting Gallery had no choice but to relegate Marley's movie debut to that most ignoble of celluloid fates.† (source)
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Two minutes before, I hadn't even wanted to celebrate, but now I was feeling dejected and insulted at being relegated to a midweek dinner at the same place we always went to. (source)
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Hudnall changed Tom's plans somewhat by relegating him to watch camp that day, while he went out with the other men.† (source)
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