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• Some rap music bestows a herolike status on drug dealers.From the entry herolike
• Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.From the entry monopoly
• Shame bestowed upon you for thinking in such a way as that.2015, Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut, Their God/s, →ISBN. From the entry not do someone any favors
• The ton was prone to bestowing nicknames on people he knew, but mishope?2005, Anne Gracie, The Perfect Waltz. From the entry mishope
• I shall go attend to the many and varied duties which Your Graces have bestowed upon me.”2004, Katie MacAlister, The Corset Diaries, New American Library. From the entry duchessness
• Who knows what honour they might have bestowed had they tasted van Zyl’s sometimes asparagusy Sauvignon.2001, John Platter, South African Wines 2001, →ISBN, page 356. From the entry asparagusy
• Woe betide the foolish wretch that sayeth he hath the power to bestow this jigglesome blessing.2000 July 9, Clovis Lark <clark@steel.ucs.indiana.edu>, “Re: Tithing is sometimes forced in the Mormon Church!”, in alt.religion.mormon…. From the entry jigglesome
• Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom. From the entry nelson
• You can bestow keys, gems, torches and powders, and restore gold, food and hit points.1984, InCider: The Apple II Magazine, volume 2, Peterborough, N.H.: IDG Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry hit point
• Marriage, like any other symbol of the cosmic center, bestows demonifugic power.1984, Elizabeth Watts Hyland, Oracles of the True Ones: Scroll One, →OCLC, page 73. From the entry demonifugic
• That he bestowed two acid drops and dried fig on Hetty.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 130. From the entry acid drop
• "Hello, Muggs!" he cried, vainly trying to bestow a pat upon that unquiet animal.1906, Ralph Henry Barbour, “In the Rowing-room”, in Captain of the Crew, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 147. From the entry who'd have thunk it
• Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.2018 October 7, Andrew R. Chow, “There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote on Your Favorite”, in The New York Times. From the entry paunchy
• Yes, illiberals argue that Poorman's privation bestows upon him the inalienable right to receive assets (coercively expropriated from Richman).2014, Stuart K. Hayashi, Life in the Market Ecosystem. From the entry illiberal
• To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.2009, Greg Ogden, Discipleship Essentials. From the entry forelove
• She had been known to bestow her favours on allied servicemen in four different war zones on the same night.2009, Neville Phillips, Smack a Trifle!: Odd Quirks in Prose and Rhyme, page 3. From the entry put oneself about
• Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas.2004, Michael A. Caloyannides, Privacy Protection and Computer Forensics, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry pseudoanalytical
• Allowing her to name the child had been one of the last indulgences that Brian had seen fit to bestow.1994, Caroline Graham, Written in Blood, page 35. From the entry Amanda
• Its coming always heralded the beginning of a new era of imperial rule, and bestowed the perfect balance of yin and yang upon heaven’s mandate.2013, Traci Harding, “The Rite of Gao Mei”, in Dreaming of Zhou Gong, HarperVoyager, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 363. From the entry feng
• I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net. From the entry priesting
• It had not taken long for the press to bestow upon the event legendary status and a Ludlumesque name: “the 'macaca' incident.”2008, Howard Fineman, The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country, Random House, page 38. From the entry Ludlumesque
• The blecherous names bestowed on each ornament only compound the horror: "Frozy Cozy," "Warm 'n' Woolly Mitten," "Chirpy & Chilly," "Merry Meows," "Rootin' Tootin Nick."2001 December 19, Alison Cook, “Attack of the Mega-ornaments: Christopher Radko, the man who super-sized Christmas”, in Slate, Brooklyn…. From the entry blecherous
• FILM CRITICS are falling all over themselves to bestow blurbable superlatives on “Braveheart,” the blood-drenched epic directed by, and starring, Mel Gibson.1995 June 1, Gabriel Rotello, “Gays Should Beware of Men in Kilts”, in New York Edition Newsday, sports final edition, volume 55, number…. From the entry blurbable
• Hong bao, or "lucky money," is by far the favored item, bestowed in bright red envelopes by married family members upon the young and single.1988 January–February, Suzanne L. Murphy, “Island Hopping: Singapore’s Chingay Parade: Music, Muscle and Make-Believe”, in Nancy…. From the entry hongbao
• If the government bestows credit upon big financial institutions and then borrows it back it is certainly a manifestation of governmental supinity.1922, Sterling P. King, chapter 9, in The Railways and the People, Boston: The Four Seas Company, page 169. From the entry supinity
• She herself had bestowed the titles.1922, William Rose Benét, The First Person Singular, page 13. From the entry vampirina
• The prince who bought the winetrees, who bestowed priceless gifts—I pity Mumha, which he has left to go into the high tomb of Oirbhealach.1918, The Irish Monthly, page 533. From the entry winetree
• And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P.1913, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 8, in The Day of Days. From the entry beggarliness
• The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked. From the entry manumission
• "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry scornfully
• Most endonyms arise from the elemental human relationship with space and place, and possess an intrinsic and enduring value which cannot normally be either bestowed or removed by political arbitrariness.2009 May, Paul Woodman, “The Nature of the Endonym”, in UN, page 2. From the entry toponymic

Meaning of bestow

1. verb To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
2. verb To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend.
3. verb To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

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Questions about bestow in a sentence

How do you use bestow in a sentence?

Bestow is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I bestow upon you the name of Peter.”

What is a short sentence with bestow?

“She herself had bestowed the titles.”

What does bestow mean?

Bestow means to apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.