How to Use assignation in a Sentence
assignation
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The artistry comes in the assignation of a prefix, Shubat said.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
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It was driven by the blond and busty paramour of the president on her way to a White House assignation.
—Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
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Clients are more likely to insist on assignations in remote places.
—The Economist, 15 June 2019
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Tehran’s refusal to back down from the FTO assignation demand has raised doubt about whether the nuclear impasse can be resolved.
—Washington Post, 11 May 2022
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Cheating lovers broadcast live audio of assignations to their boyfriends.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
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Books are packed, assignations are had, many hospitals are visited, tears of both joy and sadness are shed.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2023
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Moiraine, sneaking off for a late-night assignation with her secret lover and confidante, who’s also her boss.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
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In 1968, when the time-hopping narrative starts, Hans has been sentenced to prison yet again on the strength of an assignation caught on police surveillance cameras.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
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Clarke’s next assignation: mixed doubles with Coco Gauff.
—Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 July 2019
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The action then jumps back to 1929, when a different college boy (Calderon again) has an assignation in a movie theater balcony with a married woman (the wonderful Rumer Willis).
—Chicago Reader, 20 Sep. 2017
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The lucrative assignation of World Cup soccer venues depended on the highest bidder.
—Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
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Keith arrives for one assignation shortly after seeing Paula’s husband thump a barfly for a mild insult.
—oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2020
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Even so, members say that as Levine’s nightly assignations continued, the maestro could also turn abusive.
—Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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Their covers typically feature an anonymous man in a hat and overcoat walking alone through a monochrome city to a secret assignation.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
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But the spheres of his existence had already begun to collide before his alleyway assignation.
—Sean T. Collins, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2015
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Even though the narrator rebuffs Milkman’s advances, word instantly goes around of their illicit assignations and her loose morals.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
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Eimear McBride describes their assignations intimately but obliquely: Much of the physical act is left to the imagination.
—Donal Ryan, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
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Just two months ago, prosecutors said, another stranger approached another relative of the victim and showed that person the video of the hotel assignation.
—Alan Feuer, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
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The outerwear is meant to conceal your, presumably, illicit assignation with beignets.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
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The assignation was seen as a major escalation in hostilities, and Iran days later launched missile attacks on Iraqi bases, injuring more than 100 U.S. troops.
—Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2020
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Jagna Dobesz’s deft production design encompasses such details as the Rorschach-like patterns on the walls at Magda’s fateful hotel assignation.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
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Methane consists of a single carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen ones, giving the gas its chemical assignation of CH4.
—The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
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Felt is shown having exactly one parking-structure assignation with Woodward (Julian Morris) that is almost perverse in its lack of suspense.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
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The assignation is postponed indefinitely, however, when Sami and his family head home and find the only road barred by Israeli soldiers.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
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In an inspired touch, for instance, the actors all sport Kabuki-like makeup designed to heighten their cheekbones for maximum diva realness — which doesn’t care about gender assignations and includes men in drag.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 13 June 2017
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The corrupt governor offers to exchange a pardon for Susanna’s chastity, so the siblings and town sheriff devise a plan to disguise a prostitute named Bella Rose as Susanna for the assignation.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022
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An assignation amid its sleeping citizens, dreaming in their beds, unaware of Harvey and Don DeLillo vibrating on a higher frequency?
—Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
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The artist’s virile exemplars helped liberate gay men from society’s cheap assignations — as mentally disturbed fops mincing out roles as faux women.
—R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
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Their stories include a soapy melodrama of upper-upper-class mores, a secret assignation that becomes an assassination, and a tale of a lowly Michigan widow named Ellen who’s trying to get to the bottom of the whole rotten affair.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
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Alma writes about crushes and kisses and assignations on the Ringstrasse, about vigorously practicing the piano and earnestly studying composition, about attending the opera, about buying dresses and fighting with her mama.
—Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
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