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.

  • 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."

  • Some slips that pass in the type might send their clippers; into paroxysms of hysterical laughter, but if they have no effect on the Editor, they are consigned to oblivion.

  • 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.


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