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How to use bequeath in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb

Bequeath means to give or leave by will; to give by testament. Example: “The philanthropic endowment that she bequeathed gave her an ongoing afterlife.”

Examples of bequeath by meaning

verbTo hand down; to transmit.

  • Ownership of manufacturing workshops is not essential to that job; but BR happen to have been bequeathed a considerable number with a proud history.1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291
  • The queen’s longevity always meant that Charles’s reign would be relatively short and therefore one of his most important tasks would be to bequeath the institution to Prince William in reasonable repair.2025 October 30, Robert Booth, “Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

More sentences with bequeath

  • The philanthropic endowment that she bequeathed gave her an ongoing afterlife.From the entry afterlife
  • I bequeath my farm to my brother John on condition that he bequeath it to his son Peter. The farm is entailed or burdened by a fideicommissum.From the entry fideicommissum
  • Probably its leader Paul Berenger is keen to bequeath it as his final legacy before the curtain falls for him.2019 April 22, T.P. Saran, “Electoral Year and Reforms Due”, in Mauritius Times. From the entry the curtain falls
  • I bequeath to you my literary work.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125. From the entry attar
  • The Thirty Years' War in Germany took its toll of bloodshed without bequeathing as a recompense any real political or moral blessing.2015, Charles Sydney Goldman, The Empire and the century, Introduction. From the entry take its toll
  • Curt Gowdy bequeathed his passion, particularly flyfishing, to his sons Trevor and Curt Jr. on the marvelous trout streams of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times. From the entry flyfishing
  • For example, if an envirocentric view held that we must bequeath the present climate to the next generation, this would lead to an economic upheaval.1993, Horst Siebert, Economic Growth in the World Economy: Symposium 1992, J.C.B. Mohr, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry envirocentric
  • The people who moved out of the house next door bequeathed him a playgroundful of equipment—slide, swings, seesaw, jungle gym—for the grandchildren.1976, Julie Hayden, The Lists of the Past, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry playgroundful
  • They hang suspended over precipices, these rocky eeries of grim birds of prey that bequeath their appetite for murder and loot to their brood.1910, Hans Adolf Erwein Max graf von Königsmarck, P. H. Oakley Williams, A German Staff Officer in India. From the entry eerie
  • It' I bequeath to Richard Smythe, of Steton, my best losyn sherte, a tewed bull skyn, a bushell of wheate, and a bushel of barlie.1910 (quoting work from 1551), The Publications of the Thoresby Society - Volumes 18-19, page 280. From the entry tew
  • In this ecstatic surge of floral imagery she relinquishes Bloom's presence for his name, and thus bequeaths him with his ghostdom and his passport to eternity.2004, Derek Attridge, James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook. From the entry ghostdom
  • Thus, regimental commands in the army were – as with the judiciary or the financial bureaucracy – venal posts, which were purchased, bequeathed and sold among the nobility.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 140. From the entry venal
  • It has never been worn by a male sovereign, for on her death Victoria bequeathed it to her daughter-in-law, Alexandra, and after her to successive queens consorts.2000, Katherine Prior, John Adamson, Maharajas’ Jewels, Assouline, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry queen consort
  • The Christian Church's struggle with the inassimilable, yet indispensable modality of the Jews bequeathed to later ages two factors crucial to the emergence and self-perpetuation of allosemitism.1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', →ISBN, page 148. From the entry inassimilable
  • Even in the mid seventeenth century a country gentleman might regard his caul as a treasure to be preserved with great care, and bequeathed to his descendants.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 182. From the entry caul
  • At least a photograph of an Oscar for the splutteriest and most unintelligible performance in an otherwise for the most part excellent production is bequeathed with proper ceremony.1956 May 20, George Jean Nathan, “Awards a Few Hocked Oscars”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 115th year, number 141, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN…. From the entry spluttery

Meaning of bequeath

  1. verb To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
  2. verb To hand down; to transmit.
  3. verb To give; to offer; to commit.

Full definition of bequeath

Questions about bequeath in a sentence

How do you use bequeath in a sentence?
Bequeath is used as a verb. For example: “The philanthropic endowment that she bequeathed gave her an ongoing afterlife.”
What is a short sentence with bequeath?
“I bequeath to you my literary work.”
What does bequeath mean?
Bequeath means to give or leave by will; to give by testament.

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