bestow

Example Sentences

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Doc frowned at him with that worried look adults bestow on children they can’t quite figure out and don’t know what to ask next or whether they should even ask anything at all.

From Literature

A “brujo,” a “magician,” “a social arsonist” and the “father of Chicano Theater” — these are just a few of the monikers that have been bestowed upon Luis Valdez over the course of his decades-long career.

From Los Angeles Times

The awards bestowed by North America's largest critics' group could give movie campaigns much-needed extra momentum as Oscars voting nears.

From Barron's

At the time, the Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt said: "This universally popular figure deserves the highest praise the nation can bestow, and a knighthood is just that."

From BBC

This was not charity bestowed from afar, but mutual aid.

From Los Angeles Times