How to Use assignation in a Sentence

assignation

noun
  • The artistry comes in the assignation of a prefix, Shubat said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
  • Clients are more likely to insist on assignations in remote places.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Cheating lovers broadcast live audio of assignations to their boyfriends.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
  • There are crises in both, along with self-doubt, confrontations, assignations and discussions about art and life.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Books are packed, assignations are had, many hospitals are visited, tears of both joy and sadness are shed.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2023
  • It was driven by the blond and busty paramour of the president on her way to a White House assignation.
    — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • Moiraine, sneaking off for a late-night assignation with her secret lover and confidante, who’s also her boss.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The assignations are alleged to have taken place on the job and in the building where all were assigned to provide security.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Keith arrives for one assignation shortly after seeing Paula’s husband thump a barfly for a mild insult.
    — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2020
  • But the spheres of his existence had already begun to collide before his alleyway assignation.
    — Sean T. Collins, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2015
  • Rose describes her affairs and assignations with wistful wit, bending ordinary language into bands around her bare ring finger.
    — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Even so, members say that as Levine’s nightly assignations continued, the maestro could also turn abusive.
    — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Their covers typically feature an anonymous man in a hat and overcoat walking alone through a monochrome city to a secret assignation.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The outerwear is meant to conceal your, presumably, illicit assignation with beignets.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Tehran’s refusal to back down from the FTO assignation demand has raised doubt about whether the nuclear impasse can be resolved.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Even though the narrator rebuffs Milkman’s advances, word instantly goes around of their illicit assignations and her loose morals.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The lucrative assignation of World Cup soccer venues depended on the highest bidder.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The artist’s virile exemplars helped liberate gay men from society’s cheap assignations — as mentally disturbed fops mincing out roles as faux women.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Bernstein clarified for his students that this was a purely intellectual assignation.
    — Jordi Graupera, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Just two months ago, prosecutors said, another stranger approached another relative of the victim and showed that person the video of the hotel assignation.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The two lovers had regular assignations at a house in town originally bought by Arthur’s grandmother after her flight from China to Penang.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Men who trick their wives into outside romantic assignations ultimately need to be taught a lesson, and Diego de la Vega is no exception.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
  • In preparation for her assignations with Pat at locations in the city agreeable to him, Isabel pays careful attention to her personal style and dress.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2026
  • In 1968, when the time-hopping narrative starts, Hans has been sentenced to prison yet again on the strength of an assignation caught on police surveillance cameras.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Methane consists of a single carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen ones, giving the gas its chemical assignation of CH4.
    — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The assignation is postponed indefinitely, however, when Sami and his family head home and find the only road barred by Israeli soldiers.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Felt is shown having exactly one parking-structure assignation with Woodward (Julian Morris) that is almost perverse in its lack of suspense.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Jagna Dobesz’s deft production design encompasses such details as the Rorschach-like patterns on the walls at Magda’s fateful hotel assignation.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Jamila and Antek continue their assignations at greater and greater risk, leading to a dramatic chain of events that culminates with the villagers violently turning on the adulterous bride.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2023

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