How to Use subordinate in a Sentence

subordinate

1 of 3 adjective

• For Gilman, the life of an artist was always subordinate to the work.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• And then the third thing, subordinate to those two: Is there a good deal for us here?
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
• Above all, Napoleon believed that the church should be subordinate to the state.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• For them love is, in a certain sense, subordinate to work.
  — A-LIST, 17 Oct. 2017
• Grout, his subordinate, was in charge of recording the value of the investments each day.
  — Larry Neumeister, The Seattle Times, 21 July 2017
• In the ruling, the court says that Congress gets to determine who is a citizen and courts play a subordinate role in that process.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2021
• What is a sticky wicket is when partner is subordinate to the other.
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• Pichai quietly withdrew from the board in 2018 and installed a Google subordinate in his place.
  — Fortune, 26 Sep. 2020
• Instead of explaining how Comey broke those rules, Sessions, like Trump, leans on his subordinate to churn out the fine print.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 10 May 2017
• The agreement to commit to Team Number One will be tested by a promise made to someone on a subordinate team.
  — Scott Brown, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• All the analysis and strategy, as the series draws closer to a conclusion, can be subordinate to the sheer desire of one team to move on to the next round.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• All data and facts, all judgment about stories and the people who produce them, are subordinate to the mission.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• Fox cannot sound defensive or defiant or inclined to pass the buck to a subordinate or even a player.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• But the near miss this time should not mean that officials subordinate to a President should be left exposed to such pressure in the future.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• Neom is expected to have its own laws separate from the broader kingdom but subordinate to the monarch, King Salman, the crown prince’s father.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• Born in 1954, Frazier grew up at a time when the country still struggled to see Black people as full citizens rather than a subordinate racial caste.
  — Douglas Haynes, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Hendrie and Mr. K believe that Hai, a subordinate, wanted to protect the top trader.
  — National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2016
• Oh, there'll still be room for men to serve, but only in the subordinate roles appropriate for their lesser agency.
  — Ron Charles, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• As two subordinate officers were taking him out of the 96th Street Station, the man yelled anti-Asian slurs at Wong and kicked him in the leg, prosecutors said.
  — NBC News, 23 July 2021
• Her father, a judge in a subordinate court system in Tellicherry, kept a garden in their home and wrote two books on birds in the North Malabar region of India.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• North Polish Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
  — Woman's Day, 13 Sep. 2022
• The male subordinate doesn’t make the mistake again; the female subordinate does and her career suffers as a result.
  — NBC News, 2 Aug. 2019
• The key question: who would be subordinate to whom under the new hierarchy.
  — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
• After your boss makes an awkward joke or puts his arm around a female subordinate, look at the woman or women on the receiving end.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Esquire, 13 Oct. 2017
• In a quest for normalcy over the past few months of closures, the desire among gym-goers to get back at it has seemed subordinate only to people’s urge to return to bars and restaurants.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
• That vote probably would be cast by a Dykes subordinate serving as her ex-officio designee on the board.
  — Jon Lender, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• In other words, all staff, and not just those deemed subordinate, are subject to constructive critique.
  — Kara Dennison, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• There’s no debate, however, that Clinton had an affair with a subordinate in the White House and then lied about that affair under oath.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• In this vision, everything is subordinate to the grand vision being concocted on the sidelines and in the data analyst’s office.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• In action films, generally speaking, everything is subordinate to the plot.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024

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subordinate

2 of 3 noun

• She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates.
• Wenig's subordinate passed some of the messages on to Baugh.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 June 2020
• Then Schembri called a subordinate and told him to talk to Theuma about a job.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• When the day and time are fixed, subordinates are so informed.
  — Kat Moon, Time, 4 June 2019
• The size of Hung’s trades dwarfs those that got his subordinate, who has denied any wrongdoing, in the crosshairs of the SEC.
  — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
• Because your subordinates in the end will not support you and carry you over the line.
  — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2019
• The subordinate was demoted to a filing deputy, the suit said.
  — Fox News, 9 Mar. 2022
• Former fire chief Kelvin Cochran self-published the book and gave it to subordinates.
  — Kate Brumback, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Trump hates when his subordinates make bad news for him.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2017
• In this picture of a one-man reign of pure corruption, hapless subordinates labor in vain to hold on to the just and the true.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• So the scientists altered the calls of an alpha male the subordinates knew.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 20 July 2017
• For this reason, the IDB spokesman told me, the subordinate had to decline my request for comment.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 8 May 2022
• But there has been no evidence to date that Ms. Foxx, who is up for re-election in 2020, pushed her subordinates to drop the charges.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Ten times a day, over 4 days, the researchers put a dominant mouse nose-to-nose with a subordinate in a clear, narrow tube.
  — Byemily Underwood, science.org, 27 Jan. 2023
• Franky’s proving stubborn, so his subordinates steal his ever-present swimsuit in a bid to lure him over to Luffy to seal the deal.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Air Force sergeant posted video of her rant about black subordinates.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Johnson went out drinking with a subordinate, then was found asleep at the wheel near his Bridgeport home.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• From his children to his subordinates, to a poor waiter who would die a couple of hours later, no one is safe.
  — Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
• Moreover, since the rainmakers pocket the largest cut of the fee, their subordinates have less incentive to do a fine job.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• The suit alleges that Easterbrook, who was fired for sexting with a subordinate, did far more than that.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2020
• Rosen learned after the fact that Clark, his subordinate, had met with Trump at the White House to discuss pursuing claims of voter fraud.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Hlaing’s deputy, Soe Win, and two other subordinates were sanctioned for heading army units that led the crackdown on the Rohingya.
  — Fox News, 11 Dec. 2019
• By the end of the summer, McMaster had weeded out some of his most toxic subordinates.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• So Brown dialed a subordinate’s number at one o’clock in the morning.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Top Navy commanders pressured subordinates to sail even when the crews and ships were not fully prepared to go to sea.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2023
• But the town’s police chief, who likens them to flowers, says his female subordinates have soothed motorists.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• In addition to misuse of his aide, Uribe was found to have accepted gifts and loans from subordinates.
  — Andrew Dyer, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 July 2018
• When China’s ambassador to Ghana arrived back at his post in 1972, one of the cadres who had attacked him in Beijing was sent to work as his subordinate.
  — Peter C. Martin, The Atlantic, 19 June 2021
• Few of the software companies wanted to join Toyota’s corporate group and be treated as subordinates rather than partners.
  — Richard Katz, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2024
• As Shen explains, leadership roles depend on a leader’s ability to broker alliances, converse with peers and subordinates, and amass respect—all of which are social interactions prone to racial bias.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024

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subordinate

3 of 3 verb

• The dignity of man was subordinated to the powers of Nazism.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• And no one can hope to rise in the ranks without subordinating his interests to those of others.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• The news about her pregnancy had prompted him to subordinate his artistic ego to the expense of raising a child.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• In searching for the next artistic director, the board needs to subordinate MBA logic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• The reason is that each would require leading states to subordinate their own sovereignty.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• In the end, the 1990s didn’t advance women and girls; rather, the decade was marked by a shocking, accelerating effort to subordinate them.
  — Allison Yarrow, Time, 13 June 2018
• The desire to punish belligerence—and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause—is once again in the air.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• That’s the opposite of Trump’s approach, which is to subordinate Amazon not to the government but to his personal whims.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2018
• Other challenges included the sloping site and the need for the addition to be both harmonious with and subordinate to the farmhouse.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018
• In a sense, though, these touches are subordinated to a broader vision.
  — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• Your notion that our ability to have this conversation is subordinated to the color of our skin doesn’t make any sense to me.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• Crusoe keeps Friday as a servant, implying that the best way to civilize a savage is to subordinate him.
  — Pallavi Kottamasu, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
• Giving and receiving feedback is a two-way street and should never just be from manager to subordinate.
  — Austin Speck, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Although the situation is sticky, Frank decides to help his subordinate out.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 1 Feb. 2019
• Argott and Joyce subordinate these more pressing political questions to a mirror-box exploration of the nature of truth and the unfathomable secrets of the soul.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Feminists can be depicted as jealous man haters who want to subordinate men.
  — Joy Burnford, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• In many places, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Treating replies as equal as opposed to subordinate somehow just allows for a very different and much more broad range of public conversations.
  — Alex Heath, The Verge, 5 July 2023
• Conflating these terms, which was done numerous times through the pandemic, will only further subordinate public health to health care and not address root problems in the system.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 2 Dec. 2023
• And in a sense, our law reinforces the idea that religion has been — and could be again — a salient characteristic on the basis of which groups can be subordinated within the American populace.
  — Christopher Shea, Vox, 1 Aug. 2018
• In truth, the United States has long used its diplomatic might to subordinate global public health to entrenched corporate interests.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2018
• Luckily, no other nation has enjoyed China’s level of success in subordinating the internet to the will of the state, because of both its head start and its massive scale of investment.
  — Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2018
• In holding it back, Trump was subordinating that interest to something else — but not explaining his motives publicly or to Congress.
  — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2019
• In the years following Suharto’s downfall, politicians vowed to subordinate the armed forces to civilian authority.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Plenty of talented managers are reluctant to join firms where their career prospects would be subordinated to feckless scions.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• In many places, however, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• The Chinese economy is now managed on the principle that the economic is subordinated to the political.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Feb. 2023
• On the other hand, however, the question of aesthetics has been, more often than not, subordinated to the more urgent issues of feminist politics.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
• And, as Chinese history and the life of Anne Boleyn tells us there is much gain for these women and the families of these women who subordinate natural impulse to rational calculation.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2012
• That means Alaska's interests will be subordinated to a second, third or fourth position.
  — Bernie Karl, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2018

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