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Example sentences for: bestowing

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They chose it as their capital, bestowing the name Candia on both the city and the whole island.
The Irish practice of bestowing a maternal grandparent's surname upon a first-born son, gives us Joyce Carey (the male writer).
The Great Buddha’s right hand is bestowing spiritual tranquillity, while the left symbolizes the granting of wishes.
So genes that originally flourished by bestowing love with discerning selfishness--by discriminating against people not containing copies of themselves--now, having spread through the species, discriminate against people who do contain copies!
This whole tradition of being really, really specific in the details of the honor you are bestowing is a trend I applaud and would like to see expand.