subordinate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with subordinate, each labelled with its topic.

• In the cathedral the side chapels are deliberately subordinate, their arches lower so the eye travels straight to the altar.

  Architecture

• The subplot stays subordinate throughout, surfacing twice, and both times only to explain why the sister will not write back.

  Literature

• On the new organization chart every regional office became subordinate to a single logistics director based in Rotterdam.

  Business

• In this arrangement the strings stay subordinate to the voice, playing so softly that every word of the lyric carries.

  Music

• A city bylaw is subordinate to national law, so the court struck down the parking rule the moment the two conflicted.

  Law

• The former all-star accepted a subordinate role on the new team, setting screens and taking fewer than six shots a night.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains subordinate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• credible
• profound
• focussed
• diminish
• labored
• erode
• panelled
• unambiguous
• consenting
• dissipate
• demonstrative
• correlate