RESIGNED in a Sentence

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195 example sentences for RESIGNED, 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. She is prepared to carry out her threat to resign.
5. The President is under intense pressure to resign.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESIGNED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  A resigned striped kitten was clutched to her breast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
4  That October Governor Bullock resigned his office and fled from Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  Just after last night he resigned, following a hectic board meeting.
17  He was resigned when he saw Bob was too meek to protest Scrooge's bullying.
18  The President is under intense pressure to resign.
19  We want you to reconsider your decision to resign from the board.
20  She is prepared to carry out her threat to resign.
21  Wilson would have to resign the governorship, ceding control to Democrat Gray Davis.
22  The more likely scenario is that the president will resign and an election will be held.
23  Two MPs threatened to resign if the government did not agree to examine this case.
24  They called on her to resign as chief executive.
25  He was obliged to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal.
26  The president will have to resign for being involved in a political scandal.
27  After much legal disputation our right to resign was established.
28  Convention demands that a club member should resign in such a situation.
29  It is our opinion that he should resign.
30  He was left with no option but to resign.