Example Sentences

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“I am assigning a Marine General Officer and senior attorney, both with extensive combat experience, to head up an internal Preliminary Inquiry into the matter,” he said.

From Time • Jan. 12, 2012

“You will go and deliver a message to your master for me. I am assigning him a commission. Tell me, have you worked for Potter Min long?”

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

I am assigning you to go out on the first plane with 31 of the sickest patients.

From Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book by Rohlfing, Sam

I am assigning you fifteen thousand francs a year; I cannot give more.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

You will say this is a heavy task I am assigning you.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah