Example Sentences

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The authorities are designating 425 shelters for use in a nuclear emergency and are outfitting them with necessary supplies, he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

It was a customer — purchasing dry beans, avocados, honey wheat bread and a $2.99 bottle of wine — who notified me that “some states are designating grocery workers the same as emergency personnel now.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2020

Looking at the distribution of EMUs could help officials to pinpoint the boundaries of those areas, or to make sure they are designating enough waters to capture all the biogeographic diversity.

From Nature • Jan. 2, 2017

"These are areas which other countries are designating national parks and yet we don't seem to have the legislative or political framework to protect ours and as a result we're losing them."

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2012

By play we are designating, no longer what is done fruitlessly, but whatever is done spontaneously and for its own sake, whether it have or not an ulterior utility.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George