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

Even though Poe bequeathed to us detective and horror fiction, it's the events placed upon character that are horrific.

From Salon

To Cooper, it was a risk to adapt a detective story unfolding around the very man who bequeathed detective fiction to the world.

From Los Angeles Times

He was convinced that a secular India had to accommodate all the diversity that repeated invasion had bequeathed.

From New York Times