relegates

Example Sentences

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"We're not doing anything illegal. We act according to the law. As for being scared, fear mustn't prevail. I believe in what I'm doing. And this conviction relegates fear to second place."

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024

The drafting of Jaxon Smith-Njigba likely relegates Eskridge to being the fourth receiver.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2023

These movies were never likely blockbusters, but it’s only the current crisis of the movie business that relegates them to a cloistered isolation.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2023

It relegates Monroe’s greatness to the level of surfaces and publicity and indiscriminate goddess worship, as if her beauty could be somehow disentangled from her singular greatness — her genius — as an actor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2022

English etiquette relegates "Sir" and "Ma'am" to the use of servants, save in case of addressing the higher nobility when "Sir" is sometimes used.-183- THE NURSERY.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.