Example Sentences

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Some Cubs fans seem to relish theories about how curses or karma have destined the Cubs for failure.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2016

It's often said in the Middle East that "faith is destiny," and though Assad's Alawite faith could have destined him to obscurity, he seemed to have a higher belief--in himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have destined for each of you, out of this basket, a gift of the plums, which I have picked in my garden.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

The career for which Nature seemed to have destined him, and which, in truth, he may almost be said to have followed, was that of a vagabond, or at the best a recluse.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

And this line Agricola seems to have destined as the boundary of the Empire.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund