dispatched
Example Sentences
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Dispatched unwillingly to cover the official Groundhogging, Phil gets stuck, for some unknown cosmic reason, living the same day in the same small Pennsylvania town, over and over.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2021
Dispatched to a small Mediterranean town in southern Italy to retrieve him, Ripley is seduced by Greenleaf’s languorous life of martini lunches and afternoons on the beach.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020
Dispatched to Amsterdam to picture the then up-and-coming Oasis in 1994, Cummins was greeted by a lone Gallagher brother.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2020
Dispatched west to the burgeoning suburbs of Orange County with orders to build a new congregation from scratch in 1955, Schuller met his parishioners where they were — in their parked Chevys, Fords and Pontiacs.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2019
Dispatched to Greece, to arrange the tributes and the treaties of the Grecian princes, Iskander became acquainted with the young Nic�us; and their acquaintance soon matured into friendship.
From The Rise of Iskander by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
