Example Sentences

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Southwest was preparing in a few days to ditch open seating and go to preassigned seat sales.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

At the Montalban, fans began lining up along Vine Street an hour before curtain time, even though seats were preassigned.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2015

Like Leslie Jamison, whose essay collection Empathy Exams was published earlier this year, Daum pokes at how “human experiences too often come with preassigned emotional responses.”

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2014

Each candidate has preassigned numerical ratings for his campaign ability, financial support, fund-raising potential and press backing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sending him off alongside sprinter Limpio, he stationed the other two stablemates, Advocator and Chanceview, at preassigned places around the track.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand