How to Use assign in a Sentence

assign

1 of 2 verb

• The plane landed at its assigned gate.
• She was assigned to the embassy in India.
• The new teacher was assigned to the science laboratory.
• The teacher assigned us 50 math problems for homework!
• One man was assigned to care for the dogs.
  — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
• Guards were assigned to watch them.
  — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
• Pirro seems to have been assigned the role of fall gal.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
• Ritu was assigned to be my lab partner.
  — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
• They have still not been assigned to any object class.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
• Writers who do not assign blame to noise.
  — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• It was assigned to a cold case unit after the unit was formed.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
• Start waves will be assigned based on these standards.
  — Nicole Bennett, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
• Each team is assigned one pool reporter.
  — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
• Here are the grades our writers assigned for the work done so far.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 4 July 2026
• The area of the garden to which you’ve been assigned is one of those.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
• Schools assigned less homework and didn’t take up as much of the year.
  — Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
• Morning-line odds will be assigned then.
  — Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
• Wang was first to enter and was assigned to Koch.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
• We’re told sisters are built-in best friends, a ride-or-die assigned at birth.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
• The police assigned to his case are of two minds about what happened.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2026
• Don't give your friend the extra task of assigning you a task.
  — Marielle Segarra, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
• Not that he’ll never be assigned to that region of the floor again.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
• Many have assigned motives and labels to me that just aren’t true.
  — Anika Reed, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• The grantor is the person who opens the trusts and assigns assets to the trust.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
• The plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
• They were randomly assigned to one of two groups.
  — New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
• Spend some money and assign a full-time reporter this year.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
• Six years’ worth of names were assigned decades ago and rotated since.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
• Some will be assigned to vote in different precincts.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2026
• Some will be assigned to vote in different precincts.
  — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2026

assign

2 of 2 noun

• The game assigns points to each of the four possible outcomes.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2026
• That gap speaks to a structural issue in how the market assigns value at the very top.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
• Using replacement value is simply a better way to rank players and assign value.
  — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• Agencies recruit clients, assign photographers when a client contacts the agency, pay the bills, and handle contracts.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
• In the shooting’s aftermath, Lewis recalls watching as the country’s anger spilled over, with the desire to point fingers and assign blame.
  — Lisette Voytko, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Leapfrog assigns each hospital a letter grade from A to F based on more than 20 measures of patient safety.
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Nov. 2025
• Observers would report enemy troop movements to headquarters units, which would in turn assign targets to friendly artillery.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022
• And the people who live in the city and people who live in the Bay Area, in general awards are a way to less assign value, but give people some guidance.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Why did Great Books of the Modern World assign almost no actual books, only excerpts?
  — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
• Every week during the NFL season, the league assigns punishments in the form of fines to players who broke the league's rules the week before.
  — Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
• Don’t assign roles; assign relationships.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Rather than point fingers or assign blame, be proactive about asking for and establishing expectations and deadlines on team objectives.
  — Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The parking operations team manages traffic flow and assigns vehicles to lots based on capacity.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• For example, some methods examine the probability that an AI model assigns to a piece of text.
  — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
• For example, some methods examine the probability that an AI model assigns to a piece of text.
  — Ambuj Tewari, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
• So are training initiatives to be better listeners, how to search out and benefit from diverse opinions, how to manage meetings, and how to structure projects, assign work, and manage teams.
  — Andrea Hill, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• Norwegian's Sail Away rate assigns your stateroom up to one day prior to embarkation and can be placed anywhere on the ship, with Free at Sea perks available to add at booking.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
• Editors for Timpone’s network assign work to freelancers dotted around the United States and abroad, often paying $3 to $36 per job.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
• Once registration closes, LA28 will sort all entrants into randomized pools and assign purchase windows.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026
• The intent is to strip Hong Kongers of their own agency and assign blame to just a few select individuals, brushing aside the many legitimate grievances of city residents in favor of a more simplistic tale.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution assigns to Congress the authority to declare war.
  — NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
• To ensure accuracy, the team ran their identifications through thousands of statistical simulations — a process likened to how meteorologists model hurricane tracks — to account for instrument error and assign confidence levels to each match, according to the statement.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• But 10 of the Northern District’s 11 active judges were appointed by Republican presidents, and unlike most federal courts, the district assigns cases based on which division they’re filed in rather than through random assignment.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
• The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction assigns letter grades to each school based on student performance on standardized tests (about 80% of the grade calculation) and whether schools meet their targets for student improvement from one year to another (about 20% of the calculation).
  — David Raynor, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
• The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction assigns letter grades to each school based on student performance on standardized tests (about 80% of the grade calculation) and whether schools meet their targets for student improvement from one year to another (about 20% of the calculation).
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2025