Sentence examples for be consigned to a from inspiring English sources

Before 1945 those with mental illnesses would normally be consigned to a long-stay hospital and then forgotten.

Now the focus will turn to whether United will be consigned to a place in the Europa League next season.

A long-term assignment must be found, lest it be consigned to a Salt Lake trash heap.

On and off, Mrs. Waldon worries that she, too, might be consigned to a life no one wants to live.

This perceived lack of marketability means that Malamud seems destined to be consigned to a print-on-demand limbo.

"When he started as a student his father was about to be consigned to a lunatic asylum," Pirie explains.

Their water canon had been consigned to a museum.

He was consigned to a detention center, but he slipped out a window and vanished again.

Strollers have been consigned to a parking room, complete with a garage's painted lines.

So Gwyn, too, is consigned to a life of waiting for Robin -- but not patiently.

The prints, which were being consigned to a Melbourne art dealer, Gino Nibbi, are to be destroyed.