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.
• Once complete, that merger will demote Tesco to the second-largest grocery store in the country.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 2 July 2018
• Relief ace Tommy Kahnle had to be demoted to the minors.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 29 June 2018
• With the New York Mets at the beginning of the season, Harvey was demoted from starter to the bullpen.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 1 July 2018
• Officers were demoted or sacked and sent home, and seamen flogged with depressing regularity.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
• Then an employer who attempts union-busting could be haled into court and face an injunction against demoting or firing union organizers, followed by a trial and possibly heavy damages.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
• He was demoted to Triple-A and hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2020
• The move marked the second time Sisco – one of the team’s top prospects -- has been demoted to the minors in the past month.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
• In a span of six games, his ERA jumped to 6.00 and he was demoted from the closer role he’d been signed to fill.
  — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
• 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
• By the 1950s the Garden had been demoted from glamour queen to has-been, the Norma Desmond of hotels.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2019
• 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
• But in the store it now looks slightly demoted, on sale at 40 percent off.
  — Andre Aciman, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018
• 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
• Since last April, the Reds have recalled/demoted him six times, four times already this year.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
• 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
• This is the same body that decided by a vote in 2006 to demote Plutofrom planet to dwarf planet.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• 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
• My father, a high school principal in Belle Glade since 1955, was demoted to the junior high, with his salary slashed.
  — Ron McCurdy With Cari Lynn, WSJ, 15 June 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
• With Ryan Walker down, Doval was given his first save opportunity since being demoted from the closer’s role.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024