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Example sentences for: bestowed

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Warm praise was bestowed by the left-leaning Paris newspaper Libération on the often derided paintings by Sir Winston Churchill, of which the auction house Sotheby's staged an exhibition in London this week.
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.
But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.
Affirmative action is likely to fail when it is merely a special preference bestowed upon those who have the right parents, whether "right" means educational pedigree or skin color.
Given name is clearly preferable if one wishes to distinguish between a name bestowed by the parents in any culture and one automatically inherited.