How to Use demote in a Sentence

demote

verb
Definition of demotenext
Synonyms for demotenext
  • Teachers can choose to demote a student to a lower grade.
  • The army major was demoted to captain.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tovar was demoted at his workplace, the lawsuit says, and forced to take a pay reduction.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The two were side-by-side for several laps before Rasmussen managed to demote Gold to second place.
    — Christopher Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2021
  • The pair were side by side for several laps before Rasmussen managed to demote Gold to second place.
    — Christopher Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2021
  • At least for now, rather than demote the right-hander to the minors, the Giants will continue developing him in the big leagues.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2021
  • The changes: If a team wishes to demote a player already optioned five times that season, every other team must first get the chance to claim him on waivers.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • At one point, Wesley, who is Black, was demoted and asked to train a white co-worker to be her supervisor.
    — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • One note, from 2019, showed that Facebook expanded its list of derogatory terms in the local language and was able to catch and demote thousands of slurs.
    — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Kluber and Pivetta are in the bullpen after being demoted from the rotation.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • If that decision is to dismiss, demote or suspend him for more than 40 hours, then Jaynes would have the right to request a hearing from the Police Merit Board.
    — Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Irvin, a left-hander the Orioles acquired in the offseason to help anchor their rotation, stumbled out of the gate and was demoted to Triple-A in mid-April.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2023
  • Iannetta was demoted to triple-A Colorado Springs for three weeks in August.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That ultimately led the police chief to demote Shimanek from the rank of sergeant to officer in September.
    — Dana Branham, Dallas News, 24 Dec. 2020
  • In August 2022, he was told the company was disbanding his team and he was being demoted.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • After failing to get grant funding, she was demoted in 1995.
    — Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Manning noted the series tracks Mariota as his wife gives birth the same week he's demoted.
    — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2023
  • Right-hander Drey Jameson was demoted after failing to work deep into back-to-back starts.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Two high-ranking members of the department have already been demoted over their roles in the matter, according to Finner.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024

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