Assign

//əˈsaɪn//

"Assign" in a Sentence (19 examples)

I have to assign more men to that work.

Ask your teacher and he will assign you one.

Tom couldn't decide who to assign the job to.

For philosophers have not said anything straight and true that may not be created or confirmed by the people whose cities assign laws.

I've asked Tom to assign you a bodyguard.

He told me that he would assign all his employees to the same task.

We're not here to assign blame.

"Then Romulus the nation's charge shall claim, / wolf-nursed and proud her tawny hide to wear, / and build a city of Mavortian fame, / and make the Roman race remembered by his name. / To these no period nor appointed date, / nor bounds to their dominion I assign; / an endless empire shall the race await."

Our agenda is to check the milestones and prioritize the action items based on objectives. The priority of the roadmap is critical, so abandon the previous updates and assign work according to the prioritization.

They will assign a guardian for him.

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to assign a day for trial

to assign counsel for a prisoner

“I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.

He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.

Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

We assign 100 to x.

Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner.

The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.

He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.

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