Example sentences for: benefactor

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

  • The Post does report that Lewinsky was offered $10,000 seed money for a legal defense fund by a benefactor whose foundation promotes the view that women need to "use their sexuality" in the workplace to attract mentors.

  • 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).

  • In the Times , columnist William Rees-Mogg wrote: "Last January Bill Gates was still generally seen as a benefactor of mankind, who had developed new and efficient software to spread the advance of electronic communications.

  • A massive fortress was built overlooking the Temple Mount, which Herod named “Antonia” in honor of his Roman friend and benefactor, Mark Antony.

  • (The element with atomic number 61 is not found naturally, and this number was allocated to promethium , when proof of its existence was confirmed by American chemists, who named it for Prometheus, in Greek mythology the earliest teacher and benefactor of mankind.)


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