destine

Example Sentences

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Inside a cavernous shipbuilding hangar, workers cut and weld steel for the yard's latest icebreaker, a heavy-duty Arctic vessel, called Polarmax that's destined for the Canadian coastguard.

From BBC

She wrote in the Telegraph that Reform was destined to fail as it welcomed "toxic people" who "destroy organisations".

From BBC

There’s little doubt he’s destined to be on the PGA Tour.

From Los Angeles Times

The future of the chief information officer was once in doubt, the role cast as a bureaucrat destined to be replaced by someone, anyone.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You are the waif’s last relation in the world. Without you, the child is destined to a most piteous life in the orphan asylum.”

From Literature