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Example sentences for: assign

How can you use “assign” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The heroine of Lucy rejects the meek role that life tries to assign her, announcing, "I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense."
This created a predictable (and justified) uproar at the paper, which caused the publisher, Kathryn Downing, to apologize and mumble some nonsense about how she was unfamiliar with newspaper etiquette, which encouraged reporters and editors at the paper to push editor Michael Parks to assign a story about the whole fiasco, which he eventually did (to David Shaw, the paper's Pulitzer-winning media critic).
In each of our examples, no one was firmly in charge of managing the case and able to draw relevant intelligence from anywhere in the government, assign responsibilities across the agencies (foreign or domestic), track progress, and quickly bring obstacles up to the level where they could be resolved.
Second, the dean's office could assign each professor a "grade budget" consisting of a certain number of A's, B's, etc.
While the analysis states that EPA is confident of the cost figures included in the analysis, an estimation of the benefits is more difficult because of EPA's inability to quantitatively evaluate all human and ecosystem benefits and to assign monetary values to these benefits for a comparison in a standard cost-benefit framework.