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How to use subordinate in a sentence

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To inherit dominant status, a subordinate must outlive all those above her in the queue.
Iona, and its subordinate abbeys, accepted the Roman Church early in the eighth century, but the Scottish Church did not conform entirely.
The European federalists wanted to subordinate national governments to an overarching federal authority.
Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link.
Survival decreases more steeply for rearmost positions due to stochastic factors differentially affecting mortality of subordinate sibs.
The university rector was appointed for four years by the minister of education and was subordinate to the curator of his educational district.
Indigenous regular armies, although fighting in their own country and more numerous than foreign forces, were subordinate to them.
The warfighter will utilize organic wide-band digital radio relays to extend connectivity as required to subordinate units.
It is dinned into him that the wife must always be subordinate to the husband.
In the United States, he is relegated to subordinate positions and rendered passive by white society.
The tuffs are associated with subordinate sandstones and siltstones and minor lava.
It has lately been the fashion to focus the mind entirely on these mild and subordinate resemblances and to forget the main fact altogether.
All government bodies, executive, legislative, and judicial are now subordinate to the government.
With the Nicene resolution against the Arian subordination of the Son, the tendency to subordinate the Spirit was intensified.
The rocks typically comprise a monotonous sequence of greywackes, reddish-weathering arkosic sandstones, shales and subordinate conglomerates.
Some essays are smooth and easy reading, while others, reflect a Germanic flavor with run-on sentences and numerous subordinate clauses.
Attempts have been made to subordinate sympathy to self-love, but they appear to me perverse.
He wrote a memo to his subordinate ordering a full and immediate investigation.
Although rendered with detailed realism the particular was always subordinate to the general effect of transcendent beauty or sublimity.
On the right side of the pyramid was the monastery, with its abbot and his subordinate monks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Many a one, who aspires to direct the destinies of the State, achieves only the station of a political subordinate or spoilsman.
The delay, doubtless, was simply owing to inadvertency on the part of subordinate agents.
It is only as a subordinate necessity that the school is a vehicle for the inculcation of facts.
Two or more subordinate clauses may be attached to the main clause separately, each as a distinct modifier or complement.
But these are not the only uses to which the subordinate clause may be put.
How sad it is that in this world right is so often subordinate to brute force!
But in the Phaedo the doctrine of ideas is subordinate to the proof of the immortality of the soul.
Do not place the important idea of a sentence in a subordinate clause or phrase.
To this active process, both the individual and the institutionally organized may truly be said to be subordinate.
The care of the presses is to be entrusted to the Precentor and his subordinate, called the succentor.
A complex sentence consists of two or more clauses, one of which is independent and the rest subordinate.
A subordinate clause that modifies a substantive is called an adjective clause.
Don't waste the main verb of the sentence on a minor action while expressing the principal action in a subordinate clause.
A subordinate clause that serves as an adverbial modifier is called an adverbial clause.
No other subordinate official or servant trenches or poaches upon her preserves.
It annoyed him that subordinate of his should thus appear unseen, unheard, unsummoned, and to her affright.
For the idea of a numen supremum did not exclude belief in the existence and manifestation of subordinate deities.
A subordinate conjunction connects a subordinate clause with the clause on which it depends.
Such adjuncts therefore are not foreign to those subordinate acts of worship or honour which are technically known as dulia.
A complex sentence may be expanded either by compounding the main clause, or by increasing the number of subordinate clauses.
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