Example sentences for: bequeathed

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

  • ' " Steve Forbes objected manfully, declaring: "Mealy-mouthed rhetoric and poll-tested clichés are no substitute for a muscular substantive agenda," then he took a swing at a poor person bequeathed to him in his father's will.

  • Chief culprit in Darger's case is one John MacGregor, an art historian to whom Darger's former landlord, now his executor, has bequeathed semi-exclusive access to some of the Darger material, and who is thus the main disseminator of Darger criticism.

  • The Romans cultivated grapes, wheat, and olives; built roads; and bequeathed the Latin foundations of the Portuguese language and a strong base of Christian belief.

  • 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.

  • On her death in 1895 Louisa bequeathed the house and its contents to the city of Amsterdam on condition that it would be opened as a museum.


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