had relegated
- past perfect of relegate.
Example Sentences
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Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, beginning the end of the racial segregation that had relegated Black players to the Negro Leagues for decades.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Brunner wrote that the majority ruling had relegated the court’s constitutional role “to little more than a two-bit player in furthering the delay already embedded in the history of this case.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Like the ANC, he was critical of white minority rule, which had relegated Zulus and other Black South Africans to downsized 'homelands'.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2023
The band left Motown for CBS Records, and by 1978, the sons had relegated their father to co-manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2018
He had lumped together the whole girl question and had relegated it to the back of his mind.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
