consign

Example Sentences

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Never mind the state’s environmental laws that consign building projects to purgatory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Austria are three points better off than Scotland and another loss for Scotland would consign them to relegation from the top tier.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

In March of last year, eight months after Schneider had already agreed to consign his witch’s hat to Heritage, Shaw announced that he planned to sell the slippers at auction through Heritage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

This isn’t to consign Richman to pop’s deep bin of one-hit wonders.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024

What made it possible to consign alchemy to the dustbin of history was a new understanding of what chemists were trying to do.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton