How to Use assignation in a Sentence

assignation

noun

• The artistry comes in the assignation of a prefix, Shubat said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• 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
• There are crises in both, along with self-doubt, confrontations, assignations and discussions about art and life.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Clients are more likely to insist on assignations in remote places.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• 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
• Cheating lovers broadcast live audio of assignations to their boyfriends.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
• Books are packed, assignations are had, many hospitals are visited, tears of both joy and sadness are shed.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Clarke’s next assignation: mixed doubles with Coco Gauff.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 July 2019
• 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
• The lucrative assignation of World Cup soccer venues depended on the highest bidder.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• Keith arrives for one assignation shortly after seeing Paula’s husband thump a barfly for a mild insult.
  — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2020
• Even so, members say that as Levine’s nightly assignations continued, the maestro could also turn abusive.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But the spheres of his existence had already begun to collide before his alleyway assignation.
  — Sean T. Collins, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2015
• 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
• Eimear McBride describes their assignations intimately but obliquely: Much of the physical act is left to the imagination.
  — Donal Ryan, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• 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
• The outerwear is meant to conceal your, presumably, illicit assignation with beignets.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024