RESIGNATION in sample sentences - sense 2: as in: accepted it with resignation

He picks up a stack of papers, which I assume are handouts on rules and procedures, with a measured amount of boredom and resignation.

Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility

Mary, meanwhile, still looked dazed and resigned to a silent, unflinching suffering.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

She went sad, resigned.

V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

Sitting there, listening to Larry tell me these wretched things with such straightforward resignation and equanimity, I tried to still the turmoil in my brain.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

Then there are the ones who have not resigned themselves, who still try for an effect of glamour.

Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye

"Who started it?" asked Atticus, in resignation.

Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

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Ron sighed as though resigned to the worst

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

It was evident to everyone that he was resigned to his fate.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

He began to think it was to be, and that he could not prevent it—a very promising step of the mind on its way to resignation.

Jane Austen -- Emma

The kind of submission or resignation that he showed was that of a man who was tired out.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

She resigned herself to waiting until the rain stopped and...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

She’d sighed, resigned. "Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you."

Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

Beatrice’s face had become a mask of grim resignation.

Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

She had become resigned to her daughters’ odd and willful ways.

Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

She seemed to swing between worry and fatalistic resignation.

Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

Will I let her fall to her death, or will I resign myself to being factionless?

Veronica Roth -- Divergent

Their figures are bent, their faces full of grief, despair, haste, and resignation.

Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on.

Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

Then he stood straight, but with a kind of quiet resignation,

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

Resigned to his fate, he gazed into the bear’s eyes...

Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

"You thought he was cute," said Simon, sounding resigned.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

Warming himself ever so briefly had shaken away the lethargy and resignation and restored his will to survive.

Lois Lowry -- The Giver

Tashi didn’t want to do it, but to make her people feel better, she’s resigned.

Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;

William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

She looked him in the eye and Arthur thought he detected the tiniest resigned shrug.

Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

"Yes, to another world," replied the minister with pious resignation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

"But we can’t give up." Thomas said it in a matter-of-fact tone, as a resigned repeat of what Minho had said a moment earlier.

James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

Flavius badly wants to use his own trademark purple lipstick on me but resigns himself to a pink as they begin to color my face and nails.

Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

Eddie noticed the resigned look on the Blue Man’s face.

Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

This is the way he insists on wearing his shirts now, with the collar buttoned, which makes him look both boyish and frail, resigned to old age.

Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

My mother cried when she kissed her sons goodbye, but she was resigned.

Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

But then she seems to resign, to throw her hands up in surrender.

Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

As she buried one child after another her sorrow gave way ... to grim resignation.

Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

I turned around with elaborate resignation.

John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

I resigned myself thenceforward to despair.

Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

...she expired in his arms, resigning her precious soul into the hands of Almighty God.

Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

But Baba sensed my lack of genuine interest and resigned himself to the bleak fact that his son was never going to either play or watch soccer.

Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

August settled herself beside me on the swing, resigned.

Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal.

Tim O’Brien -- The Things They Carried

In time she grew resigned to this.

Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

Her dad shrugged with resignation.

Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

Yossarian stepped out of the way with resignation finally when he saw it was hopeless to try to reason with him.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

Harry knew, by the fact that Fleur showed no sign of surprise, but rather a determined resignation, that he had been right:

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Resigning himself to a miserable day, he...

Christopher Paolini -- Eragon

MRS. PEARCE [only half resigned to it] Very well, sir. It’s for you to say.

George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

"Well, nothing in the world would surprise me now," said Mr. Hardman with quiet resignation.

Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express