How to Use assignment in a Sentence

assignment

noun

• The reporter is here on assignment.
• The reporter is here on an assignment.
• She asked if she could change her seating assignment.
• The students were given a homework assignment.
• The reporter's assignment is to interview the candidate.
• The article discusses the recent assignment of senators to some of the more powerful committees.
• Graterol has been out with a hamstring injury but could start a rehab assignment after that.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 30 Aug. 2024
• Gao threw himself into the assignment, seeing it as his ticket to survival.
  — Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• Dogs may not have anything to eat, but students could feel less stress if more schools reconsider their homework assignment policies.
  — April Rubin, Axios, 2 Sep. 2024
• Nevin is 7 for 13 with two doubles, a triple, a home run and two RBIs during his rehab assignment.
  — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 5 Apr. 2023
• Calkins’ first patrol assignment was Immokalee, about 40 miles northeast of Naples, where migrant workers labored in the vast tomato fields.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• But Lawrence, Vaughn, and the whole Bad Monkey ensemble understand the assignment.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
• Instead, educators can ask a student to show their work before accusing someone of using AI for an assignment.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• No matter how small the assignments, many students will complete them using ChatGPT.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2024
• The Bombers had interest in Rosario as a free agent over the offseason, and the Dodgers recently designated him for assignment.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Jason Vosler, who had five hits and 20 strikeouts in 47 at-bats after an electric first week of the season, was designated for assignment.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2023
• Jan’s struggling with the assignment, to say the least.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024
• The initial scope might be an eight hours per day, two-week assignment.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
• The copyright assignment for all rights to the screenplay was struck with Lady Amos and Hill, the lawsuit said.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Meaning 007 could be on its assignment for a very long time.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
• And the assignments always aim to solve a local problem.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• That assignment never came, so Temple moved back to Paris on his own in 1796.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
• You're required to take on-call and overtime assignments on the weekend.
  — Caitlin Kelly, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
• The first assignment Diesel gave her was to organize a Labor Day barbecue for some of the film’s cast and crew.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• Noah Song is six games into his rehab assignment with the Phillies and hit 93 miles per hour in his last game in Double A.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Strassburger is forty, and Brownsville is his first assignment in the priesthood.
  — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• Her first assignment featured a new character, the Cat, now known as Tigra.
  — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• My first writing assignment happened on the second day of camp.
  — Hannah Smith, oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• The 6-3 Brennan drew the defensive assignment against Clark.
  — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Her assignments have taken her to some of the most remote parts of the planet, from the Trans Himalayas, in search of elusive snow leopards,...
  — Lizzie Pook, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024