Example sentences for: consigned

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

  • In this way, first-rate peripatetic artists are consigned to the pantheon's banlieux rather than its 7th arrondissement.

  • The former “Intourist” shops which only took HUFand had a virtual monopoly on quality souvenirs have been consigned to the same scrap heap as the statues of Stalin.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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