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Example sentences for: benefactor

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When an anonymous benefactor provides him with the means to travel to New York and show his paintings at a SoHo gallery, he goes somewhat mulishly.
It’s called the statue of the Three Lies because it isn’t John Harvard, but only a student model; he wasn’t the founder, only the first benefactor, who donated his 400-book library; and the date is wrong (it should be 1636).
The museum, in a shockingly grandiose neoclassic building on a beguiling little street, is named for its benefactor and the town’s former mayor, whose family founded the Bacardí rum empire (which moved its headquarters and production to Puerto Rico after the revolution).
A massive fortress was built overlooking the Temple Mount, which Herod named “Antonia” in honor of his Roman friend and benefactor, Mark Antony.
In 1943 the Duke intervened in the investigation of the murder of Canadian multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes, a longtime benefactor of the Bahamas who gave his name to Nassau’s first airfield.