Example Sentences

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In that time, Scotland have won at Twickenham, in Dublin, Paris, Rome and Sydney and this win in the Welsh capital has consigned the previous losing streak to history.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

Maria is vertiginously in love but she’s also swirling in the consumerist spell of an America that has consigned her to a custodial role.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2021

This state of affairs is nothing new—L.A. has consigned an entire neighborhood to the street homeless—but what is new is the sense that we might, finally, be able to do something about it.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2021

I think this is probably separate from the "special hell" to which Taylor Swift has consigned Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, for the mortal sin of making a joke about Taylor Swift.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013

Fifthly, it has consigned at least 150,000 persons to jails and penitentiaries.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.