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How can you use “bestowed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And on this perfectly nice and liberal-minded businessman, Roth, in his malicious rage, has bestowed a monster of a daughter, a stuttering left-wing bomb thrower and murderous lunatic destined to ruin her daddy's family and his life--just to show what comes of so much cheer and post-ethnic American optimism.
Given name is clearly preferable if one wishes to distinguish between a name bestowed by the parents in any culture and one automatically inherited.
The high honor bestowed upon me is also a recognition of the Yiddish language—a language of exile, without a land, without frontiers, not supported by any government, a language which possesses no words for weapons, ammunition, military exercises, war tactics.
people such as Charles A. Johnson, Vice President for Development of the Lilly Endowment, Hank Rosso, Founding Director of The Fund Raising School, Patricia Lewis, President of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, and Milt Murray, an extraordinary fund raiser upon whom both The Center and NSFRE have bestowed their highest awards.
If one is fortunate enough to carry one of those Italian names beginning with Bon- or Buon(buono good), for example, one's value is announced to all the world: the parents of Michelangelo Buonarroti (arrota `gain,' from arrogare `to acquire'; the compound, say Hanks and Hodges, was originally bestowed when parents welcomed the birth of a child) probably were not surprised that he turned out so well, although they might have had even higher hopes for his little brother, Buonarroto Buonarroti .
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