ASSIGNMENT in a Sentence

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The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASSIGNMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
assignment
 n.  task given to students; job or appointment
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  But all I know, sir, is, that I am ready to hand you over this sum in exchange for your assignment of the debt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
2  de Boville, who took it without ceremony, and quickly drew up the required assignment, while the Englishman counted out the bank-notes on the other side of the desk.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
3  Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
4  But the assignment of these various meanings to the factor does not yield results which accord with the historic facts.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
5  As soon as possible after reaching the grounds of the Hampton Institute, I presented myself before the head teacher for an assignment to a class.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
6  Because to everything there must be assigned a limit.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  He was agreeably struck by the cleanness of the room assigned to him, the freshness of the bed-linen.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the apartments assigned to Prince Vasili.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
9  Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
10  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 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
11  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 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
12  Prince Vasili and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
13  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 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
14  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 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
15  A minute later the marshal's adjutant, de Castres, came in and conducted Balashev to the quarters assigned him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  I was assigned to watch the road.
17  An experienced detective was assigned to the case.
18  The teacher assigned a different task to each of the children.
19  He assigned federal agents to listen in on Martin Luther King's phone calls.
20  Every available officer will be assigned to the investigation.
21  Brown assigned most of his officers to neighborhood beats.
22  A patient going through acute detox will have an assigned nurse nearby.
23  One teacher is assigned for four years to the homeroom class, which combines lessons in rudimentary social skills with those in computer and civics.
24  The main travesty is that the people who caused the current problem are now assigned to fix the problem.
25  The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de.
26  The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earthenware vessels except the shard he had brought back from the expedition.
27  The burdensome task of preparing the income tax return was assigned to him.
28  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.
29  When I taught, I would assign a topic to children which they would write about.
30  It is possible to assign an exact date to this building.