Examples of assignation in a Sentence

a midnight assignation between adulterers at a downtown hotel

Recent Examples on the Web Tehran’s refusal to back down from the FTO assignation demand has raised doubt about whether the nuclear impasse can be resolved. — Washington Post, 11 May 2022 In 1968, when the time-hopping narrative starts, Hans has been sentenced to prison yet again on the strength of an assignation caught on police surveillance cameras. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022 The corrupt governor offers to exchange a pardon for Susanna’s chastity, so the siblings and town sheriff devise a plan to disguise a prostitute named Bella Rose as Susanna for the assignation. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022 The lucrative assignation of World Cup soccer venues depended on the highest bidder. — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 Moiraine, sneaking off for a late-night assignation with her secret lover and confidante, who’s also her boss. — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021 Jagna Dobesz’s deft production design encompasses such details as the Rorschach-like patterns on the walls at Magda’s fateful hotel assignation. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021 Other officials said Foote felt sidelined because his proposals on stabilizing Haiti following the assignation of the country's president earlier this year were rejected. — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021 It was driven by the blond and busty paramour of the president on her way to a White House assignation. — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021 See More

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