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How to use destine in a sentence

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Destine means to preordain. Example: “His bulldog determination was destined to bring him the opportunity he was seeking.”

More sentences with destine

  • His bulldog determination was destined to bring him the opportunity he was seeking.From the entry bulldog
  • He is sure he is destined for fame.From the entry destined
  • Around 25 years ago, it was used as a dumping ground for Toton locomotives destined for scrapyards.2021 June 16, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, in RAIL, number 933, page 14. From the entry dumping ground
  • Pronouncers are shown in all wire service copy destined for broadcast use.2019, Carl Hausman, Philip G. Benoit, Fritz Messere, Announcing for Broadcasting and the Internet. From the entry pronouncer
  • The perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians. ¶ We are all witness.2017 October 16, 4chan, /pol/, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023. From the entry gigachad
  • I was destined to read story books and write awesome stories for the rest of my life.2014 September 19, Syazwani Izzati Azhar, Dear Diary, syazwani izzati azhar, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry dear diary
  • You must be picking up olfactory emanations from a subverse destined to be your neighbor.2011, Adam Douglas, The Square Root of Negative Forty-Two, page 108. From the entry subverse
  • He is Chekhov's gun on the wall, destined to go off at the crucial moment.2007, John Updike, Due considerations: essays and criticism, →ISBN, page 336. From the entry Chekhov's gun
  • But are these Olympics also destined to become a jingoistic, flag-waving convention, a world-alienating Patriot Games?2002 February 7, Harvey Araton, “Jingoism Is the Way of the Olympics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry jingoistic
  • Held captive by society against their own free wills, the precogs are destined to foretell disturbing precrimes.2002, Ethix: The Bulletin of the Institute for Business, Technology & Ethics, Issues 22-38. From the entry precrime
  • The blessing of private initiative for public affairs is destined to be appreciated more deeply.1999, Rupert Graf Strachwitz, “Foundations in Germany and Their Revival in East Germany after 1989”, in Helmut K. Anheier, Stefan Toepler…. From the entry endow
  • It is less involved with textiles, toys, and plastics destined for re-export through Hong Kong.1998, Graham E. Johnson, Yuen-fong Woon, “Social Values and Development Patterns in South China: The Case of the Pearl River Delta Region…. From the entry Shunde
  • Blank sightless eyes closed speechless mouth destined eternally to rigid frigidity (frigor mortis).1991, Ailbhe Smyth, “The Floozie in the Jacuzzi”, in Feminist Studies, volume 17, number 1. From the entry unassailably
  • He brings it to the glory for which it was destined by God.1969, Peter Taylor Forsyth, Samuel J. Mikolaski, The creative theology of P. T. Forsyth: selections from his works. From the entry rehallow
  • Coniferous and broadleaved wood destined for delibration or pulping by mechanical, chemical or combined means.1966, Timber Statistics for Europe - Volume 19. From the entry delibration
  • Destined for internal consumption, these three words nevertheless provoked the reply which you see here: who doesn’t?1960, Raymond Queneau [aut.] (+ unknown tr.), Zazie, page 128. From the entry percontative
  • And similarly the material destined for many may furnish one only.1929, Hans Dreisch (W.H. Johnston), Man and the Universe, page 93. From the entry fourling
  • But Low Frankish was destined to gain supremacy over Frisian and Low Saxon.1900, Gustav Meyer, Germanic Dialects, page 93. From the entry Low Frankish
  • The Rest Is Entertainment also backs the “vodka-cran”, an abbreviation destined to be handled with the distance of quote marks.2026 July 25, Rebecca Watson, “What’s your summer drink? Mine’s a cup of cynicism”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The…. From the entry vodka cran
  • General Secretary Xi is not destined to tyrannize inside and outside of China forever, unless we allow it.2020, Michael Pompeo, “Communist China and the Free World’s Future”, in U. S. Department of State. From the entry tyrannize
  • No player is in principle unseatable—destined to go without.2020, Nicholas Rescher, “On Explanation and Understanding”, in Knowledge at the Boundaries, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International…. From the entry unseatable
  • It's destined to be the world's first weedery.2015, Christian Hageseth, Joseph D'Agnese, Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business…. From the entry weedery
  • This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN. From the entry memehood
  • All children called Darren, Wayne, Jason, Tracy, Kirsty or Kylie are destined for misery and several unsuccessful attempts at suicide.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist. From the entry Darren
  • Of course, 'Jate' fans may hope that she is destined to marry Jack, and become the 'Shephard' listed on the wall.2010, Robert Dougherty, Lost: It Only Ends Once: An Unofficial Last Look, page 44. From the entry Jate
  • Still, Anne is clear that she was destined for gothdom.2008, Amy C. Wilkins, Wannabes, Goths, and Christians, page 32. From the entry gothdom
  • The train had scarcely reached the district of Hulan (it was destined for Harbin) when I was arrested.2006, “The Diary of Father Francis Tan Tiande”, in Michael Miller, transl., edited by Gerolamo Fazzini, The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs…. From the entry hulan
  • Being a starwatcher myself, and coming from a long line of Indian soldiers, I should have known our friendship was destined.2005, Hollis Dorion Stabler, Victoria Smith, No One Ever Asked Me, page x. From the entry starwatcher
  • The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues. From the entry climb
  • In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the Other, destined to appease its desire.1992, Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry other
  • She greeted the bikini-clad and board-shorted onlookers politely between poses for photographs that apparently were destined for a weekly magazine.1988 January 6, Wendy Tuohy, “Still a place to be seen and overheard”, in The Age, number 41,374, page 8. From the entry board-shorted
  • Good or bad they're careerists, they jog two miles a day, and they're all destined to outlast the Ramones.1981, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s, as republished (unabridged) in 1990 asRock albums of the '70s…. From the entry '70s
  • He was, by nature and choice, a hotelier and destined to become the most famous hotelier in the world.1964, Conrad N. Hilton, hotelier, page 75. From the entry hotelier
  • It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry trinitarian
  • A cheery, unleery show, entirely suited to evoke forgetfulness of those November fogs through which it seems destined to run.1925, Reginald Hargreaves, “‘The Unfair Sex’”, in The Theatre World, London, →OCLC, page 75, column 2. From the entry unleery
  • Teams of hundreds of people are spending years of their lives developing games that are destined to get lost in the sea of new releases.2025 September 26, Jason Schreier, “The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games”, in Bloomberg, archived from the…. From the entry oversaturated
  • Pigs destined for the processed products market usually have a carcase mass of 65 kg and higher (usually larger baconers, heavy baconers and sausagers).2007, Agrekon, volumes 46-47, page 216. From the entry sausager
  • It was a play destined to set Jack Hibberd on the road to legendary popularity and financial wealth (in playwright terms, anyway).1973, Leslie Rees, A History of Australian Drama: Australian drama in the 1970s, Sydney: Angus & Robertson. From the entry ocker
  • Hutcheson, now associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia, that the sturdy, unpainted, one-roomed and one-teachered academy was destined for permanent remembrance.1938 October 9, Anne Hubbard Lee, ““The Four R’s” in a One-Room Schoolhouse”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXI, number 119…. From the entry teachered
  • The MR and GNR both delivered hundreds of thousands of tons of coal destined for London's domestic and commercial firegrates into their depots at St Pancras and King's Cross.2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42. From the entry firegrate

Meaning of destine

  1. verb To preordain.
  2. verb To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use.
  3. verb To attribute a particular destination.

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Questions about destine in a sentence

How do you use destine in a sentence?
Destine is used as a verb. For example: “His bulldog determination was destined to bring him the opportunity he was seeking.”
What is a short sentence with destine?
“He is sure he is destined for fame.”
What does destine mean?
Destine means to preordain.

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