How to Use consign in a Sentence

consign

verb

• The goods were consigned to him.
• She consigned the painting to an auction house.
• Salem is still consigned to being a cat for trying to take over the world.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• But there's risk involved with consigning the near term to the dust bin.
  — Dan McGrath, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
• Were such things not consigned to the realm of movie musicals.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
• There’s still time left for families who want to consign their items.
  — Kari Barnett, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Good for you and even better, not consigned to landfill.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
• Save your fingers by saving the scrap for broth or consign it to the compost.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• Witold Pilecki was never able to consign the past to the past in the same way.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Their creations were no longer needed and nearly all were consigned to the trash heap.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
• Pieces the Reich deemed unsellable were consigned to the fire.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• If an egg is determined to be too soft or too runny, it's consigned to the tester bowl.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
• Soon enough, the entire Pac-12 was consigned to the same place.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
• It hasn’t yet been stuffed and mounted, consigned to a museum.
  — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
• It was never consigned in writing.
  — Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
• Shop for or consign shoes, pants and jeans, sports coats and blazers, suits and tuxedos, and beyond.
  — Katie Toussaint, charlotteobserver, 8 Sep. 2017
• But these problems aren’t consigned to the medical sphere.
  — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
• Not all the old fonts and machines were consigned to museums or melted down.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• One of the first steps in getting unwanted clothes out of your closet is to sell or consign them.
  — Audrey Gorden, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• That, too, is a result of our decision to consign the lessons of the past to oblivion.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• It should be consigned to the trash heap of lies and misinformation.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
• The stranger, moreover, turned out to be a local farmer who would later be consigned to an asylum.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• That private collector has since consigned it to the auction house, the spokesman said.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg | Wwd, latimes.com, 19 June 2017
• In one of the funniest, squirmy bits, Zhang and his ma are consigned to a dark basement.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Timing and fate would crown some of the climbers with success and consign others to the coldest of graves.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
• The best sports watches have heart rate reader tech good enough to make most of us consign chest straps to the back of a cupboard.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• The company, which consigns second-hand goods online, said the process would take four to six weeks.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2019
• That seems to have been consigned to history, along with his all-too-brief stint in Lisbon.
  — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 28 June 2025
• But the 23-year-old was not consigned to others writing his story.
  — Elias Burke, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• The great majority of sneakers that are worn daily are soon consigned to the trash.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2023