Example sentences for: bequeath

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

  • ..’ The lawyer is also habituated to doublets and triplets like fit and proper; force and effect; give, bequeath and devise; null and void , and rest, residue, and remainder . These seem to me among the less reprehensible, for they are understandable to ordinary people and are objectionable mainly on the grounds of repetition rather than obscurity.

  • If you think your lifestyle is too extravagant, spend less and bequeath the savings to your grandchildren.

  • What I am left with is a list of proverbs for all occasions, which I hereby bequeath to the reader along with my own contradictions:

  • Both sides of this lifetime correspondence are now in the possession of his granddaughter, Miss K. M. E. Murray, who has made arrangements in her will to bequeath them to the Bodleian.

  • And even if we think that all children are equal in the sight of God, we might understandably bequeath our property to our own kin.


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