Example sentences for: bequests

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

  • So in most states, restrictions on private inheritances are limited to the lifetime of living beneficiaries plus 21 years (conditions on bequests to charities can often last longer).

  • An exception might be poor families, where bequests are insubstantial.

  • So, the general rule is that if people wanted to redistribute among offspring, they'd do it through bequests.

  • But a deeper reason for investigating bequests is that they reveal something about people's instinctive sense of justice.

  • But parents don't use bequests to redistribute income.


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