Sentence examples for she consigned from inspiring English sources

For years she consigned it to the dark, though its full-figured characters surfaced in her novels: dreaming of Nockerl and whipped cream, murmuring "Ach!" under their breath.

And I cringed while reading that when Stephen proposed, Jane writes, she "consigned all my thoughts of a career in the diplomatic service to oblivion".

For a time she consigned her slinky designs to local secondhand shops, but before long she was selling them from her house, against a dreamy backdrop of mottled peach-tone walls.

Fans of Mary Stewart, who would have turned 100 today, may not be pleased to learn that she consigned a sequel to her beloved romantic suspense novel Touch Not the Cat to the shredder.

In 2000, when the photographer Josephine Sittenfeld was a junior at Princeton University, she captured portraits of her classmates on medium-format film and, after exhibiting the prints on campus, she consigned them to a closet in her parents' home.

She consigned the card to Christie's, a New York-based auction house better known for selling famous artworks.

But as the ripping sound went on, minute after minute, into a theatre totally silent, I remembered the killer Fred West embalming the heads of young girls, wrapping them until they could barely breathe, and the sound of the tape tearing became the essence, the very sound of cruelty; and I thought, the dead girl is made a parcel, she is consigned, she is consigned to oblivion.

It is a feeling with which she can sympathise, as she says she had "consigned" herself "to never voting in my life", thanks to a string of "petty drug offences" that led to her first felony conviction at 25 and a last one six or seven years ago.

'It's not going to happen,' they'd say, 'my vote's not going to happen.'" It is a feeling with which she can sympathise, as she says she had "consigned" herself "to never voting in my life", thanks to a string of "petty drug offences" that led to her first felony conviction at 25 and a last one six or seven years ago.

The old hands – buffaloes, elephants and rhinos – think she's too fluffy for the job, so she gets consigned to traffic duty.

She has consigned her two Polaroid shots to Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati for a Nov. 15 sale.