How to Use assign in a Sentence

assign

verb
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Synonyms for assignnext
  • 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!
  • The pair first met in 1986 at Cologne Bonn Airport where Bach was assigned to pick the singer up.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • Rafe Schlesinger, who will start Saturday’s 3 p.m. game, was assigned to catch the first pitch.
    — Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Six years’ worth of names were assigned decades ago and rotated since.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The second ruling came when Jones opposed a bill that would assign armed guards to schools.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • They and other crews had been assigned to keep the fire from spreading up the mountainside.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Homework assigned at the start of the school year can be turned in any time before Oct. 5 and still receive full credit.
    — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • My team had been assigned lane number three, right near the main door where the lunatic with the assault weapon would burst through shooting.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The bill proposed to limit high school athletes to playing on teams that match the gender they were assigned at birth.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Within 24 hours of your departure, the airline will assign you a seat.
    — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
  • The task force included over 150 members assigned to track him down.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • He was assigned to the infantry, arriving at the tiny base near Gaza in September.
    — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Rourke is finally cleared to go back to work, and he and his partner (J.D. Pardo) have been assigned to a stakeout.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
  • Here are the rankings assigned to Charlotte’s biggest banks.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • It was devoted to land mine removal, the kind of extreme task that robots have long been assigned.
    — Ben Ryder Howe Nic Antaya, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Complex fires occur when two or more fires are burning in the same general area and are assigned one name.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For now, the group has decided not to assign a new name to JN.1, and to reference it as a member of the Pirola family.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But now she has been randomly assigned to oversee the trial.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 June 2023
  • That’s when they’re each assigned to kill the other, changing everything.
    — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The camera operators are poised to jump into action and follow the team to whom they are assigned.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the revenue model assigns second-class cash to the Big 12 and ACC, which are set to receive 32 percent of the total revenue each year.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • There is one delegate left to be assigned after the New Hampshire contest.
    — Meg Kinnard. Jill Colvin and Thomas Beaumont, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The fellows are assigned to the news, features and sports desks, as well as the visuals and digital production teams.
    — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2023
  • All were assigned to the field division of the department’s court services bureau.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
  • Then the big newspapers hear about it and assign reporters to write how stupid these local right-wingers are, and the parents see it and hate the fake-news media more than ever.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Jail records did not indicate whether Meza had hired a lawyer or had a public defender assigned to him.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • The columns indicate different attributes of that task, such as the deadline or who is assigned to do it.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024

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