Example sentences for: bestow

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

  • But the folks in Stockholm have traditionally been conservative about whom they bestow scientific awards upon.

  • I don't know what name future historians will bestow on our present age, but arguably the age deserves not a name but a nym.

  • Somewhere, sometime, speakers of English must bestow upon Representative Brooks a special commendation for his creation of a description of a planned government agency that would be “a more or less off-the-shelf independent, stand-alone, self-supporting operation for covert operations.”

  • But even with an income of $75,000 per year, they can afford only so much for Skip and Buffy's tutoring, so they limit their family size in order to bestow more on fewer kids.

  • Visitors should be sure to stop at the huge bronze incense burner in front of the hall, to “bathe” in the smoke — an observance believed to bestow a year’s worth of good health.


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