CONSIGN in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for CONSIGN, such as:
1. He consigned the task to the new comer.
2. I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
3. This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.
4. After the financial disaster, she was consigned to a life of poverty.
5. It was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, Elriges Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk.
2. I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
3. This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.
4. After the financial disaster, she was consigned to a life of poverty.
5. It was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, Elriges Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONSIGN
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consign
v. commit forever; commit irrevocably
v. give over to another for care or safekeeping
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 If I sought to enter by the house, my own servants would consign me to the gallows.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2 Never fear, good people of an anxious turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion.
3 Those consigned to the fields were the ones least willing or able to learn, the least energetic, the least honest and trustworthy, the most vicious and brutish.
4 Old Monsieur Farival, grandfather of the twins, grew indignant over the interruption, and insisted upon having the bird removed and consigned to regions of darkness.
5 He consigned them to red regions; he called upon the pestilential wrath of strange gods.
6 He consigned his unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, and found them all insufficient, because after torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least the boon of unconsciousness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
7 It was there Wilmore had first met him and fought against him; and in that war Zaccone had been taken prisoner, sent to England, and consigned to the hulks, whence he had escaped by swimming.
8 Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.
9 When all of the house that was open to general inspection had been seen, they returned downstairs, and, taking leave of the housekeeper, were consigned over to the gardener, who met them at the hall-door.
10 So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
11 It was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, Elriges Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12 For answer Chichikov folded three together, and, having dipped them in melted butter, consigned the lot to his mouth, and then wiped his mouth with a napkin.
13 The wagons that had reached the hussars had been consigned to an infantry regiment, but learning from Lavrushka that the transport was unescorted, Denisov with his hussars had seized it by force.
14 Though I could almost have consigned her to the mercies of the wind on the topmost pinnacle of the Cathedral, without remorse, I made a virtue of necessity, and gave her a friendly salutation.
15 This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion of the police.
Example Sentence:
1 Perhaps it would be better to consign it to a place where others may not so readily gain access to it.
2 After the financial disaster, she was consigned to a life of poverty.
3 I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
4 He consigned the task to the new comer.
5 This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.