How to Use consign in a Sentence

consign

verb
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  • The goods were consigned to him.
  • She consigned the painting to an auction house.
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has long conjured images of war that Europe thought had been consigned to the history books.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Soon enough, the entire Pac-12 was consigned to the same place.
    — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Witold Pilecki was never able to consign the past to the past in the same way.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Pieces the Reich deemed unsellable were consigned to the fire.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • But there's risk involved with consigning the near term to the dust bin.
    — Dan McGrath, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
  • Salem is still consigned to being a cat for trying to take over the world.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • That, too, is a result of our decision to consign the lessons of the past to oblivion.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The White House is vowing a new six-point strategy to consign the crisis to the past.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The problem for either the Yankees or the Red Sox is that one will be consigned to a wild-card play-in game.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • In one of the funniest, squirmy bits, Zhang and his ma are consigned to a dark basement.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Save your fingers by saving the scrap for broth or consign it to the compost.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • For a couple weeks after that I was consigned to the doghouse.
    — Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But the man who once favored bright-colored shirts is now consigned to the prison’s white uniform.
    — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • In the hope that such subterfuges are consigned to the past, her name on the program is cited as Maria Grandval.
    — Anthony Barcellos, sacbee, 8 June 2018
  • Their creations were no longer needed and nearly all were consigned to the trash heap.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
  • If an egg is determined to be too soft or too runny, it's consigned to the tester bowl.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Consign the piece to another gallery or to an auction house.
    — Daniel Grant, WSJ, 11 June 2017
  • But that doesn’t erase the fact that her story should consign Trump if not to prison, at least to the ash heap of history’s great wastrels.
    — Keith L. Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Shop for or consign shoes, pants and jeans, sports coats and blazers, suits and tuxedos, and beyond.
    — Katie Toussaint, charlotteobserver, 8 Sep. 2017
  • There is always a storm on the way, one that might capsize their boats and consign their belongings to the bottom of the bay.
    — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • That private collector has since consigned it to the auction house, the spokesman said.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg | Wwd, latimes.com, 19 June 2017
  • There’s still time left for families who want to consign their items.
    — Kari Barnett, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • She was taught that God loved her but wouldn’t think twice about consigning her to Hell for wearing shorts.
    — Carina Chocano, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
  • One of the first steps in getting unwanted clothes out of your closet is to sell or consign them.
    — Audrey Gorden, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • It hasn’t yet been stuffed and mounted, consigned to a museum.
    — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
  • It should be consigned to the trash heap of lies and misinformation.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
  • The stranger, moreover, turned out to be a local farmer who would later be consigned to an asylum.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • It was consigned to her in 2018, prosecutors stated, along with other Adams prints.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2024

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