Example sentences for: bestowed

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

  • Another common nickname, bestowed by a satirical paper called Frank , is The Glock und Spiel , probably a sly dig at the Globe's conservative leanings.

  • 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.

  • 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 .

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

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


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