relegation
Example Sentences
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After three matchdays in the relegation zone, the win meant Spurs, last season's Europa League winners, climbed out of the bottom three and leapfrogged West Ham.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Their level is not to fight for relegation, but we have to accept and be stronger than the people who speak too much.
From BBC • May 3, 2026
The club suffered the earliest-ever relegation in English football, as defeat at Sheffield United on 22 February consigned them to League One with 13 games to play.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
That relegation followed a run of only one win in their final 19 matches but the Northern Irishman has re-established his reputation this season as one of the best young coaches in the English game.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
This tendency would be encouraged and perpetuated by the relegation of vessels of particular forms to particular ceremonies.
From Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466. by Holmes, William Henry
