RESIGN in a Sentence

Learn RESIGN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
195 example sentences for RESIGN, such as:
1. It is our opinion that he should resign.
2. He was left with no option but to resign.
3. They called on her to resign as chief executive.
4. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger.
5. The President is under intense pressure to resign.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RESIGN
resign
 v.  leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
 v.  give up or retire from a position
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  Of them all, perhaps, De Bracy least regretted the interruption; for his conference with the Lady Rowena had arrived at a point, where he found it equally difficult to prosecute or to resign his enterprise.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Lord Ravenshaw and the duke had appropriated the only two characters worth playing before I reached Ecclesford; and though Lord Ravenshaw offered to resign his to me, it was impossible to take it, you know.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Her secret was still her own; and while that was the case, she thought she could resign herself to almost everything.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an Army coach.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
5  A proposal was then made to Don Issachar that he should resign me to my lord.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  But you have not the same resources as we; certainly it is much better to devour your enemies than to resign to the crows and rooks the fruits of your victory.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
7  It was her mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
8  They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
9  Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
10  He meant to resign his commission immediately; and as to his future situation, he could conjecture very little about it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
11  No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  I construed this remark into an indication of a wish that he should have my place, so I blushingly offered to resign it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
13  I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
14  And, truly, Servius was wanting in wisdom when he imagined that the sons of Tarquin would contentedly resign themselves to be the sons-in-law of one whom they thought should be their subject.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV.
15  From his harshness and severity to his soldiers, Appius was so ill obeyed by them, that after sustaining what almost amounted to a defeat, he had to resign his command.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX.
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  The President is under intense pressure to resign.
2  We want you to reconsider your decision to resign from the board.
3  She is prepared to carry out her threat to resign.
4  Wilson would have to resign the governorship, ceding control to Democrat Gray Davis.
5  The more likely scenario is that the president will resign and an election will be held.
6  Two MPs threatened to resign if the government did not agree to examine this case.
7  They called on her to resign as chief executive.
8  He was obliged to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal.
9  The president will have to resign for being involved in a political scandal.
10  After much legal disputation our right to resign was established.
11  Convention demands that a club member should resign in such a situation.
12  It is our opinion that he should resign.
13  He was left with no option but to resign.
14  He was going to resign his personal property to the care of his nephew.
15  Political commentators are predicting that the minister will have to resign.