How to Use demote in a Sentence

demote

verb

• Teachers can choose to demote a student to a lower grade.
• The army major was demoted to captain.
• Since last April, the Reds have recalled/demoted him six times, four times already this year.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
• Expect to see a 73 rating next season, demoting him to silver.
  — SI.com, 5 July 2019
• Miller framed the move to demote his client as a disheartening sign of problems carried over from past administrations.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
• With the spread of print culture, orality was demoted, creating a hierarchy between those who could read and those who could not.
  — Kate Eichhorn, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• Several chiefs asked to be demoted in solidarity, but Kavanagh never signed off on any of the requests.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024
• In a press conference last month, Powell also dismissed Trump's argument that he can be demoted.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 July 2019
• The action will effectively demote the forum on Reddit, restricting how its content is shared across the site and removing key features.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2019
• My friend reminded me how often the prettiest flowers are demoted in our esteem simply because their prettiness makes them commonplace.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 13 July 2019
• Buttigieg demoted Boykins over his handling of a police phone-tapping incident that drew the attention of federal authorities.
  — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2019
• He was demoted to Triple-A and hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2020
• He was demoted to Low-A, in Greenville, and didn’t fare much better.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The next month, Sheriff Scott demoted him to work the graveyard shift as a jailer.
  — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Five of her six school board colleagues voted to demote her last week.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2021
• That's why Hinch has no plans to demote the 19-year MLB veteran.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2021
• In the memoir, Jackson did not address the prospect of being demoted by the Navy.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• The 26-year-old lefty was the A’s Opening Day starter last season and had a good start, then struggled and was demoted to the minors.
  — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Buttigieg demoted the chief and hired a white replacement.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• And after being sent down once in early May, he was demoted again near the end of June.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• Cabrera didn’t hit 100 innings in the big leagues and was demoted to Triple A for a month due to command issues.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• Next came the 2003 suicide of the French chef Bernard Loiseau, who believed that his restaurant was being demoted from three stars to two.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Doval had been demoted, not just from the closer’s role but out of the big leagues altogether.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• At first, the larger dolphins were classified as their own species, but in 1884 they were demoted to a sub-species.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 11 July 2024
• While there’s been an internal push to demote him to the second unit, Vogel has resisted the push.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• Quarterback Trey Lance was demoted and then traded in the same week.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• The outfielder is out of options, meaning the team would have to pass him through waivers before demoting him.
  — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
• She was again demoted in September 2015 and transferred to work under the church’s board.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• But that may have been the point: At his worst, Roth seems to demote the suffering of a whole people in order to make room for his own sense of being picked on.
  — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2021
• The case leaves Cassie in shambles, and she’s demoted back to the domestic-violence unit.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024