How to Use resigned in a Sentence

resigned

adjective

• The resigned Berkman sits down in the living room and asks to call the police to confess.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
• Such news could spur some remote workers to heave a resigned sigh and flip their cameras on.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
• 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
• There’s a resigned understanding that this love might be doomed but, darn it, Meat Loaf’s in for it anyway.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Or just the resigned sigh of a biographer who can no more get a handle on his subject than his subject could?
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• The nurse looked at me with the resigned expression of a person who had seen all the forms of madness that overtook birthing women lying on their backs with their bodies open to the world.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• At the six-minute mark, she was tackled near midfield, didn’t get the whistle, and got up with a resigned shake of her head, no doubt recording the slight even on a day dedicated to her.
  — Howard Megdal, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• The resigned authors' profiles are no longer on The Blair Partnership's clients page, which continues to be headlined by Rowling.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2020
• 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
• Old souls have a wise air about them and a resigned confidence that comes from dying hundreds of times before being reborn into the body of someone people want to date.
  — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
• His life as a resigned pool boy in the fictional Palerma City is about to be abruptly upended when he’s asked to safeguard a mysterious box.
  — Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
• The resigned version takes that and adds a smile — one that manages, through the tears, to communicate ruefulness, cynicism, contempt and the sheer relief of finally giving up.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2021
• Though some patients got better over time, many seemed to slip into a resigned monthly shuffle to and from the psychiatric office to refill or switch medications, many of which just didn’t seem to work, at least not for long.
  — Scott Shannon, Wired, 18 May 2021
• Of the roughly 20 drivers IndyStar spoke to about the issue Friday and Saturday, the general sentiment almost across the board was that the series needed to try something, but a resigned frustration this likely wouldn’t be enough.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024