Example Sentences

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Achieve this level of enlightenment quickly enough, and you might—might!—rescue some hair that your DNA had destined to be Drano’d away.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2014

But Providence had destined her for another fate.

From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2011

What my father aspired to be and what Allah had destined for him was nurtured chiefly by the fertile tutelage of his parents while his family was still together and thriving as a unit.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

I had long doubted whether any such woman as you need existed; but I recognized Cornelia as the person whom, in imagination, I had destined for you; therefore she must belong to you.

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Had she not a pathological library, filled with all that a physician needed,--the same that she had destined for Walter, but had not yet sent to him?

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von