- 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
Planes arrive from here and there; holiday makers, the injured and dead, today's interchangeable destines.
From Deadly Pollen by Stephen Oliver
What the Lord destines, he buys—some old iron, a bundle of rags, an old sack, or else a hide.
From Jewish Children by Hannah Berman
Were they not the very ones to help a timid child whom God destines to become an apostle of apostles by prayer and sacrifice?
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) Taylor
Such a girl may a man marry who destines his days to the wild west; but woe unto him!—woe unto him, should he migrate among the more civilized and less charitable coteries of our neighbors!
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
