Example Sentences

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Without their involvement, Mr. Papantonio said, “He has destined the process for failure.”

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

Consider ye what doors His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh has opened before you, and what a high and exalted station He has destined for you, and what bounties He has prepared for you!

From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Side by side with these primitive conditions stands a romantic story of Ojin's self-denial in ceding to his son, Osazaki, a beautiful girl whom the sovereign has destined to be his own consort.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

Father, and all good people, this is the man who has saved our country from the enemy, and whom God has destined to be my husband.

From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Harding, Emily J.

"Fear not the utmost ruin then," I said, "Cleave confident the clouds and die content, That heaven has destined thee to such illustrious death."

From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.