bequeathed

Example Sentences

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But many who served in the front lines maintained their revolutionary zeal, becoming more determined to sustain the regime Khomeini bequeathed to them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

The world they bequeathed to us was immeasurably better than the world they'd inherited from their parents.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

The ascent of Benson Boone, with his mustache and his backflips, suggests that Jackman may yet find inheritors to carry on the tradition he himself was bequeathed by Diamond and the rest.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2025

“Hey, supervisor!” — as he strode past Town Hall to Imagination Park, a gift the city’s most famous resident, filmmaker George Lucas, bequeathed along with life-sized statues of Yoda and Indiana Jones.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Hale had access to Mollie’s fortune through Ernest, but his nephew did not yet directly control it, and would do so only if Mollie died and bequeathed it to him.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann