Example sentences for: consigned

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

  • Nominated for the Booker Prize in England, Desai's novel of a small-town family in India is deemed "splendid" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). The two parts of the title refer to the internal structure of the book, the first half following the life of the family's plain and somewhat dim older daughter, who after failing to marry is consigned to the life of a glorified house servant.

  • Stephen (31) remains consigned mainly to teen flicks (though he won acclaim for his supporting role in The Usual Suspects ). Textbook example: the 1996 comedy Bio-Dome , where he plays opposite ex-MTV star Pauly Shore.

  • His eyes are narrowed, his mustache conceals his mouth but is bracketed by laugh lines--he is made to denote some kind of perfunctory emotion, actual emotion being consigned to his grinning subjects.

  • ' For a long while it did seem like we, the people, were consigned to endure poverty, while our leaders wallowed in assumed wealth at our expense.

  • But if "political chicanery and corruption" continue, the term might be "soon enough consigned to the already substantial scrap heap of meaningless African catch phrases."


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