How to Use resigned in a Sentence
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Such news could spur some remote workers to heave a resigned sigh and flip their cameras on.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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