How to Use destine in a Sentence

destine

verb
  • In any event, this case seems destined for the Supreme Court.
    Ilya Shapiro, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • Are the sins of the father inevitably destined to become the sins of the son?
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • With a name like Yia Vang, he was destined to work in kitchens.
    Ashlea Halpern, Bon Appétit, 22 Apr. 2020
  • But that doesn't mean the pumpkin pie is destined for the trash bin.
    Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2019
  • From him to the women, this just feels like it was destined.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The 76ers bit the bullet and are destined for a bright future.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And is the Big Ten destined to repeat the same mistake?
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This is a not-so-simple plan, and it’s destined not to work.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Jim Rivera hit a line drive that seemed destined for a base hit.
    Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 8 June 2018
  • Even at the time, those close to the couple knew they were destined for long-term love.
    Luke Chinman, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
  • The wrong one can destine you for results that seem like a Sisyphean curse.
    Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Of those 88 new cars, six are destined for the Hiawatha line.
    Ryan Nilsson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Based on that alone, the group is destined to suffer the wrath of stans worldwide.
    Rebecca Shortall, Vulture, 12 July 2023
  • Right now the site’s sale includes at least a few you’re destined to fall in love with.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As one of the co-chairs of the 2023 Met Gala, Dua Lipa's outfit was destined to bring the house down.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
  • At the age of eight, Cameron decided she was destined for the stage.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 31 July 2019
  • Right now the site’s sale includes at least a few you’re destined to fall in love with.
    Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2023
  • This match was destined to end in a final-set tiebreak.
    Lukas Weese, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2025
  • One thing many savvy chefs keep in the freezer: odds and ends that are destined for stock.
    Karla Walsh, CNN Money, 27 June 2025
  • As for the person Jones is destined to evolve into—the sky’s the limit.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Boris Nemtsov was destined to be a great physicist, or seemed to be.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
  • Noa seems destined for much greater things than working at the DMV.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The same forces that claimed the other Young Guns were destined to destroy him as well.
    Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • After all, they’re destined to get buried in the back of their closet next fall.
    Liz Regalia, Parents, 23 July 2025
  • But that, of course, was not the only place made-in-China iPhones were destined.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Acres of it, waving in the dry air, destined not for people’s plates but for cows.
    Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Just because a fund has done well over the last year or so doesn’t mean it’s destined to do well again.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Your soul may be saved, your body may be destroyed, but you're destined to have a great time.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Like Lewis Hamilton, his bulldog, Roscoe, was destined to be a champion.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In both instances, the Supreme Court cited the export clause as grounds to bar the government from collecting money on goods destined for sale abroad.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025

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