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Example sentences for "consigning"

Lexicographically close words:
consign; consigne; consigned; consignee; consignees; consignment; consignments; consignor; consigns; consilia
  1. Finding that the great Reformer was not to be thus made light of, Henry turned author, and by taking up the pen, he, instead of consigning his antagonist to the flames, regularly burnt his own fingers.

  2. I must confess that this exorbitant charge immediately changed my pleasure into anger, and I could not help mentally consigning the lamplighter to the devil.

  3. How could I explain the easy, familiar tone which he had employed with the wretch to whom he was consigning the message to Pepito Rechifla?

  4. Not a muscle of his features was discomposed during the solemn address of the Lord Justice-Clerk consigning him to his doom.

  5. Penn sent his scapegrace eldest son to Pennsylvania, consigning him to the care of Logan and his other sober friends, but other companions were better suited to his taste, and the silly youth brought discredit upon his father and himself.

  6. Twining, Western, and Twining, where we shall find Mr. Western about consigning to the waste-paper basket a large pile of letters.

  7. And do you feel justified in consigning them to a position which you know by painful experience to be one of the most disagreeable that can be endured.

  8. After consigning the command to General Gerard, Davoust quitted Hamburg, and arrived at Paris on the 18th of June.

  9. They looked forward to the slide of the guillotine as ending all thought, and consigning them back to that non-existence from which they had emerged at their creation.

  10. He lived to reward his benefactors by consigning them all to prison and to death.

  11. Is there on earth a crime more revolting against civilized nature, or more detestable to civilized society, than that of a parent selling his own child and consigning her, expressly and voluntarily, into a state of prostitution?

  12. Comus was nothing more than a common Professor of the science; and Hermotimus a silly blockhead, who could not wake himself from his trance in time to prevent his wife from consigning him to the funeral pile.

  13. We can neither eat nor drink without infringing on their domain and consigning myriads of them, perhaps, to an unprovoked destruction.

  14. Her father, to say nothing of the regret which he felt in parting with his child, experienced some remorse in consigning her to the discomfort of a wild and unsettled country.

  15. To provide against this, he had essayed to place them in safety by consigning them as a deposit in trust to the Sacred College.

  16. In the hall Adam de Dutton was about consigning one of the villains, for some venial offence, unto the whipping-post and the stocks.

  17. She had been consigning her to various imaginary harrowing fates since she left the castle in search of her, but the keeper had smiled his grim smile, and assured her that girls were like kittens, and had nine lives.

  18. When Blanche looked up from the fir-needles, wearied with her search for the cones, it was to see the little maiden, whom she had just been consigning to dreamland, leaning against a tree.

  19. It was not a time for words, and hastily consigning the boy to the custody of the nearest seaman, with a brief order to take care of him, I resumed the pursuit.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consigning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.