Example sentences for: bequeath

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

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

  • The sources also believe that President Hafez Assad of Syria "wants to bequeath his son and designated successor a legacy of peace, in order to facilitate the continued rule of his Alawite regime," the paper said.

  • 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:

  • ..’ 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.

  • "This week, he has an exceptional opportunity to prove it--and to bequeath a lasting legacy."


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