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Example sentences for "relegated"

Lexicographically close words:
releaseth; releasing; releefe; releeue; relegate; relegates; relegating; relegation; releif; releive
  1. Cadiz became the capital of the nationalists, but they could not restrain their revolutionary impulses long enough to form a respectable or trustworthy government, and Wellington was once more relegated to inactivity.

  2. They did not indeed expel the Jews, as in Luebeck and Bremen, but they were relegated to Ghettos within Austria, beyond which they were not allowed to pass.

  3. But there is reason to believe that it must be relegated to the limbo of a kindred and popular superstition.

  4. Old Shôn, the sexton, was already digging the little grave in a corner of the churchyard relegated to such unconsidered and unwelcomed beings as this.

  5. The controversy of the Land Bill was put aside; many of the controversies of the Home Rule Bill would be relegated to the Committee stage.

  6. Then he gave it up, and relegated women to a place with the fourth dimension on the shelf of his understanding.

  7. Those he had relegated to the library at home.

  8. The herdsman's duties have been relegated to the mixed class of Gowaris, produced from the unions of Ahirs and Gonds in the forests, and not improbably including a considerable section of pure Gond blood.

  9. A similar rule applies among some of the other groups, a man being relegated to his wife's division when he marries into one which is lower than his own.

  10. But if she has a child out of wedlock, he is relegated to the Vidur or illegitimate group.

  11. This office is relegated to sightless individuals or ugly old women; many Japs indulge in their services after a warm bath, finding the treatment very pleasant and beneficial, so they say.

  12. Some of the varieties in this group may not prove to be distinct, and later they will be relegated to their proper place as synonyms, but I have thought it best to record them by the names under which they have been received.

  13. Truly it seems as if any use for needlework in the future will be relegated to an occasional spasmodic effort, such as when war confronts us and our soldiers are supposed to be in need of a hundred thousand nightcaps or mufflers.

  14. An early specimen of a bordered Sampler, dated 1747, the rows being relegated to a small space in the centre, where they are altogether an insignificant feature in comparison with the border.

  15. Certain gods were relegated to the cold shades of obscurity, whilst new deities were adopted and others, hitherto regarded as negligible quantities, were exalted to the heights of heavenly omnipotence.

  16. There is only one exception to this, and that is to be found in the department of war, to which certain of them appear to have been relegated at an early period and later to have become identified with it very closely indeed.

  17. I never have been guilty of a reclamation about anything to my credit, and I do not mean to be; but if there is any blame going, I do not choose to be relegated to a subordinate place when I have a claim to {323} the first.

  18. I reply that it is a definition which must be repudiated by every one who possesses an adequate acquaintance with either the facts, or the philosophy, of science and relegated to the limbo of pseudo-scientific fallacies.

  19. Iapetus as the representative of an obsolete order of things is described as warring against the new order under Zeus, and is naturally relegated to Tartarus.

  20. I think Mr. Burglar Lovell may congratulate himself that he had not been relegated to Coldbath Fields, for he would most assuredly have derived less benefit there from his sixty feet of rope than he appears to have done at Millbank.

  21. Another tradition states that the statues represent Thassilo, duke of Bavaria, and Theodo his son, relegated to Jumieges by Charlemagne.

  22. If they are trustworthy for the period to which they are relegated (approximately 14th-12th cent.

  23. Likelier, it had but been relegated to some mirky recess of the shop.

  24. If the compartment was so full that my hat-box had to be relegated to the rack, I would always, in the course of the journey, take it down and unlock it, and pretend to be looking for something I had put into it.

  25. There are certain fallacies in the argument by which Religion is relegated into the "Unknowable," however, to which it will be the purpose of this essay to call the reader's attention.

  26. It seems entirely proper to me that this word be relegated to the pedagogue, the chiropodist, and the barn-storming actor who so boldly assert a right to its use.

  27. And while she thus relegated him to the outer places where strangers hovered, a sweetness, so gentle, so caressing, so all pervading that it made of her a new and lovely creature, marked her manner to the sick man.

  28. Leff was of the outer world to which he relegated all men who showed fear or lied.

  29. The menaces, however, in this case, are relegated to the infancy, and the lustful temptation is absent altogether.

  30. The trials by personal devils are relegated to the regions of insanity and disease.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relegated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.