How to Use resigned in a Sentence

resigned

adjective

• The goat had a resigned look in her eyes as the rancher pressed her udder and aimed a stream of milk into a tall cup.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• Bald and rotund, Dublish projects the resigned air of a man terribly wronged but too beaten to protest.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
• During her character’s apex in the show, the plea for her father to change his life, her voice curdled from sadness into a resigned anger.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The album’s 20 songs are the resigned and rueful sound of him making amends with his obscurity, and his larger place in the universe.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
• Neither is the machine that, partway through the play, noisily turns the stage into a great berg of foam, which slowly subsumes a resigned Kramer.
  — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
• Just 14 yards on resigned run plays were, however, according to Pro Football Focus.
  — Oliver Thomas, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
• With Kidman’s outsize role standing as the antithesis to the resigned Carmel, the stage was set for a noteworthy acting partnership.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021