- present tense form of destine (3rd person singular).
destines
Example Sentences
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A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2020
The like may be fancied upon all changes of government; when providence destines the ends, it orders the means.
From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey
I indeed recognise my enemy," said she to the woodcutter; "beware of him, and believe that it is with no good intention he destines your daughter for the bride of a king.
From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
He shows not His purposes, but it would seem he destines Feodor, his young son, to be our tsar.
From Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Alfred Hayes
Armstrong talks about independence, and yet destines himself to the worst kind of dependence—slavery to money-getting.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
