RESIGNED in a Sentence

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195 example sentences for RESIGNED, such as:
1. Not long after that he resigned.
2. He resigned for a variety of reasons.
3. She resigned her seat to an old woman.
4. He resigned as manager after eight years.
5. She resigned over an issue of personal ethics.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RESIGNED
resigned
 a.  accepting one's fate; unresisting; patiently submissive; showing hopelessness
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  As for Scarlett, she had long ago become resigned to Melanie's habit of seeing good in everyone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  A resigned striped kitten was clutched to her breast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
4  That October Governor Bullock resigned his office and fled from Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
5  This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
6  They appeared, therefore, punctual and resigned, with the air of people bound for a dull "At Home," and after them Hilda and Muriel straggled, yawning and pinning each other's veils and ribbons as they came.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  The most considerable event of the two years after the birth of Hugh occurred when Vida Sherwin resigned from the high school and was married.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  She had resigned from the school, but she kept up one class in English.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  I'm going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Yes," continued the tall man, "we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  I am Charles Edward, King of England; my father has resigned all his legal rights to me.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
14  She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
15  Although Plutarch says: the tyrant never grows old, Rome, under Sylla as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  The agency sent a replacement for the secretary who resigned.
2  He resigned for a variety of reasons.
3  Two members resigned from the board in protest.
4  Everyone who was directly concerned in the incident has now resigned.
5  Julian ought to have resigned, then he'd have come out of it with some credit.
6  The director resigned in protest at the decision.
7  He resigned as manager after eight years.
8  My father resigned his directorship last year.
9  A hospital administrator has resigned over claims he lied to get the job.
10  She resigned over an issue of personal ethics.
11  Not long after that he resigned.
12  In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat, he resigned from the leadership.
13  She had earlier resigned her post as President Menem's assistant.
14  She resigned her seat to an old woman.
15  He resigned after his implication in a sex scandal.