Example sentences for: bestowed

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

  • Conservatives, naturally, have tried to argue that stockholders don't merit the same rights bestowed on union members by paycheck-protection measures.

  • The name Guangzhou was bestowed during the Kingdom of Wu (third century a.d.), but foreigners came to call it “Canton.”

  • The gift that is bestowed on her is the ability to see “to the heart of things,” and the woman is instructed to use the gift for the good of the people of San Antonio and of Texas.

  • Stross could have written a fabulous book about how Microsoft's meritocracy produced a perfect monopoly, out of sheer grit and the love bestowed upon its team of managers by America's mutual funds (their fondness for Microsoft stock yielded a price that allowed the company, with its handsome stock-option compensation program, to hold on to its best, most talented players).

  • But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.


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