bequeathed

Example Sentences

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Forty percent of her estate was then bequeathed to her niece, the report noted, meaning that if the painting were to be sold, a portion of the revenue would legally belong to her niece’s children.

From New York Times

"In general, as we age, men are bequeathed gravitas but women are at best offered sympathy," she writes.

From BBC

The property along the Hudson River was once owned by railroad tycoon Jay Gould, whose youngest daughter bequeathed the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

From Reuters

“He bequeathed us all,” Phelps wrote, “a unique opportunity to advocate for the public interest on every imaginable social problem and at every level of government and society.”

From Washington Post

The novel, the third in a series of books about this turbulent period, was inspired by a cache of secret-police files, which the daughter of a former K.G.B. officer bequeathed to Kurkov several years earlier.

From New York Times