relegation
Example Sentences
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The club was sitting 16th in La Liga, just two points from the relegation places, and here it was hiring an Ivy Leaguer from Bergen County—a veteran of the Fair Lawn Cutters—to turn things around.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
If results in those games and elsewhere go against them, they could be in the relegation zone by the time that last-four tie with Villa arrives.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Despite Forest being involved in a relegation battle domestically, Villa know their opponents' resilience first hand having been held to a 1-1 draw by Vitor Pereira's side last weekend.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Looking at the table, they will need three wins, or at least two, from their final six games if they are going to climb out of the relegation zone and stay up.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Everyone who has enjoyed the light and graceful poetry of Ovid, has sighed over the relegation of that city man to the barbarous horrors of the Black Sea.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
