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Example sentences for: bequeathed

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So we don hectares, litres, and milligrams—but not, I hope, without turning to nod goodbye respectfully to the earliest form of English bequeathed by our ancestors.
The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
This book can do nothing, of course, to relieve us of the sort of vocabulary that makes a garbage man or dustman into a waste removal consultant, but it is enormously helpful in explaining, in a straightforward way and (unfortunately) without rancor, what bureaucracy has bequeathed us.
In 1950, a descendant — an American named Robert Tucker — bequeathed many family heirlooms to the house in his will.
Teyler, having no heir, bequeathed his fortune to the advancement of the arts and sciences, and there is an interesting collection of scientific instruments among other artifacts.