Example sentences for: bequeathed

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

  • 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.

  • One of Crete’s most influential religious institutions, Toploú Monastery (Moní Toploú), is found here on a windswept hilltop, surrounded by large swathes of fertile land bequeathed to it by grateful believers.

  • Marès, a 20th-century sculptor of civic statues, was a compulsive collector who bequeathed to Barcelona an unusually idiosyncratic collection of art and, well, miscellany.

  • This is Edinburgh, a city which, since 1846, has marked time in its own distinctive style and to which, in return, time has bequeathed a rich legacy of monuments, myths, martyrs, and memories that make it a magnet for visitors.

  • Yet, they bequeathed to the world a rhetorical phrase that was pregnant with meaning deeper than many of them may have intended.


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