On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Resign. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as quit or pass and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Resign in a sentence
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Resign meaning
- To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
- To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
- To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
Synonyms of Resign
Using Resign
- The main meaning on this page is: To give up; to relinquish ownership of. | To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another. | To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
- Useful related words include: give up, leave office, quit, step down.
- In the example corpus, resign often appears in combinations such as: to resign, resign from, resign as.
Example sentences (20)
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam recorded saying she 'would resign if she could'Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam has said she "would resign if she could", according to an audio recording of a speech she gave to a group of.
State Media: Algeria's Bouteflika to Resign This Month (Yesterday) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his mandate ends on April 28, state news.
Anwar’s wife and daughter will not resign their seats and William Leong has offered to resign his Selayang seat if Anwar wants that seat.
He claimed he would resign should his bond fiction fail but today all we see is him failing to resign.
Churchill was still keen for a trip to Moscow, and threatened to resign, provoking a crisis in the Cabinet when Lord Salisbury threatened to resign if Churchill had his way.
The losing player should resign out of courtesy at this point, although in practice this rarely occurs, as players normally resign as soon as a loss is deemed inevitable.
About 80 of Grindr's 178 employees declined to relocate and were forced to resign.
About four per cent said they intended to resign from the force within the next two years and eight per cent stated they are already looking for other employment.
According to an Opinium poll taken at the end of March, a majority of people said they believed Johnson should resign if the committee ruled against him over misleading MPS about Partygate.
Administrator Alba decided to resign based on his health.
After becoming the first pope in six centuries to resign in 2013, Benedict promised to live 'hidden from the world', but broke that pledge to speak out on several explosive issues.
After Wesley does some soul-searching, he decides to resign from Starfleet.
A leading figure from the SNP’s trade union has threatened to resign if the party does not now appoint forensic auditors.
Alexander believed Biden would resign for health reasons in the first year of his presidency, but Democrats grossly overestimated the abilities and popularity of Kamala Harris.
And although almost every Republican in the New York delegation has called on Santos to resign, even if they’d all voted in favor of expulsion, the yeas would still be far short of the required supermajority.
And, in a stunning change of stance, Ms Dorries said former PM David Cameron was wrong to resign when he did.
And then, of course, he had to resign.
And while some may quit, others resign silently, withdrawing from their job even if they are showing up for work — applying themselves as little as possible, Viviers said.
An opinion writer for The New York Times has called on Claudine Gay to resign her post as Harvard’s president in light of an ongoing plagiarism scandal.
Anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate have called for to resign after Saturday’s far-right clashes at the Cenotaph.
Common combinations with resign
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to resign 127×
- resign from 22×
- resign as 17×
- should resign 13×
- would resign 12×
- not resign 10×
- resign and 10×
- resign after 9×
- resign if 8×
- will resign 7×