was consigning
- past progressive of consign.
Example Sentences
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For some, Sainz was consigning himself to a support role.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2021
A new Star Wars film that used John Williams’s thunderous music only in passing, or even omitted it entirely, would send a clear message that it was consigning nostalgia to the past.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016
Cleve trembled with rage as he thought of the degradation to which that pompous fool, Lord Verney, was consigning him, yet what was to be done?
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Jack still protested, fearing that he saw more clearly than she to what a widow with a tiny, crippled fortune was consigning herself in this country of the young and striving.
From A Fountain Sealed by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
They knew that in fact he was consigning them to death without honor; but they were loyal to the last.
From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Yonge, Charles Duke
