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 Meanings and Examples of ASSIGN
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assign
 v.  appoint; allot; make over; point out authoritatively or exactly
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  You assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been used to hear given, or than I can quite comprehend.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Get Context   In CHAPTER IX
2  And to that class we had better assign also Manilov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Get Context   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
3  D'Artagnan, whose inquiring disposition we are acquainted with, had not--whatever interest he had in satisfying his curiosity on this subject--been able to assign any cause for these fits, or for the periods of their recurrence.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS By Alexandre Dumas
Get Context   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
4  Because to everything there must be assigned a limit.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Get Context   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  He was agreeably struck by the cleanness of the room assigned to him, the freshness of the bed-linen.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Get Context   In CHAPTER VIII
6  They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the apartments assigned to Prince Vasili.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
7  Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
8  The best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
9  But the command of the extreme left flank had been assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov was serving, and a misunderstanding arose.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
10  Prince Vasili and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
11  Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
12  When Prince Meshcherski had left, Prince Andrew took Pierre's arm and asked him into the room that had been assigned him.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
13  A minute later the marshal's adjutant, de Castres, came in and conducted Balashev to the quarters assigned him.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
14  Prince Andrew found Barclay de Tolly, to whom he had been assigned, on the bank of the Drissa.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
15  Three large rooms were assigned to them in the monastery hostelry, one of which was occupied by Prince Andrew.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo Tolstoy
Get Context   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  The main travesty is that the people who caused the current problem are now assigned to fix the problem.
17  The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de.
18  The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earthenware vessels except the shard he had brought back from the expedition.
19  The burdensome task of preparing the income tax return was assigned to him.
20  It listens to customer-service calls and assigns an empathy score based on how compassionate agents are and how fast and how capably they settle complaints.
21  I believe that this assignment is the most challenging of them all.
22  The professor suggested diverse ways of approaching the assignment and recommended that we choose one of them.
23  Don't botch this assignment; if you bungle the job, you're fired!.
24  Although I do not wish to circumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else.
25  Despite the dangerous nature of the undertaking, the dauntless soldier volunteered for the assignment.
26  The emperor was spared the onus of signing the surrender papers; instead, he relegated the assignment to his generals.
27  I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment.
28  You can go to Hongkong with us so long as you finish your assignment before Friday.
29  He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
30  You'll need to calculate how much time the assignment will take.