consign
verb (used with object)
to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed byto ).
were consigning
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past progressiveof consign.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He had wanted me to go to his Adirondack lodge, instead, and resigned me into Mr. Richards' care at the settlement as if he were consigning me reluctantly to one of the Inferno's inner limbos.
From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.
It trickled from a wooden spout out of the hill and before our cooking pot was filled we were surrounded by thirsty soldiers, who were consigning us to the hottest of places for our slowness.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
