Example sentences for: destined

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

  • Unable to replicate the agricultural techniques of the Anasazi, the Paiutes were destined to a semi-nomadic lifestyle until European settlers arrived, changing the nature of existence in the valley forever.

  • Sugar cropping, destined to change the face and fate of the Caribbean, began booming as early as the 1640s.

  • Among the nearly 200 pages of hagiography: 1) letters to Time from Harpo Marx, Salvador Dalí, William Randolph Hearst, and Frank Sinatra ("as usual your information stinks," Frank wrote in 1961); 2) an array of great cover images; 3) Time 's most and least prescient comments (in 1983, a prediction that the paparazzi would kill a member of the royal family, and in 1933, a prediction that Hitler was destined for obscurity); and 4) a list of Time neologisms ("socialite," "televangelist," and "World War II").

  • There are three major categories of sales outlets for these manufacturers: (1) woven goods and some knit goods destined for clothing, in which materials are sold to apparel-makers for fabrication and assembly; (2) home furnishings—such as sheets, bedspreads, towels, and some knit goods—in which the textile firm sells directly to retailers; (3) industrial products, from automobile seat covers and rugs to commercial fishing nets, in which a textile firm sells materials to a car company or other nonapparel manufacturer.

  • The FAO estimates that roughly one-quarter of the marine commercial catch destined for human consumption—some 18–40 million metric tons of fish—is thrown back in the sea, a harvested catch that is never utilized or counted.


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