Example sentences for: bestowed

How can you use “bestowed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Stross could have written a fabulous book about how Microsoft's meritocracy produced a perfect monopoly, out of sheer grit and the love bestowed upon its team of managers by America's mutual funds (their fondness for Microsoft stock yielded a price that allowed the company, with its handsome stock-option compensation program, to hold on to its best, most talented players).

  • Their name, says the myth, was bestowed on them when an ancestor, on his way to meet another tribe, walked through land burned by prairie fire and blackened his moccasins.

  • With such rapturous scenery and a climate that is consistently delightful, perhaps it would be unfair to expect nature to have bestowed the island with miles of perfect sands as well.

  • Warm praise was bestowed by the left-leaning Paris newspaper Libération on the often derided paintings by Sir Winston Churchill, of which the auction house Sotheby's staged an exhibition in London this week.

  • Conservatives, naturally, have tried to argue that stockholders don't merit the same rights bestowed on union members by paycheck-protection measures.


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