legatee

Example Sentences

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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?

From The New Yorker • Sep. 27, 2019

As a legatee of the civil rights struggles that peaked in the 1960s, he considers the nature of the movement’s achievements in light of present-day racial realities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2015

Its most famous legatee is Christopher Nolan, creator of Inception, and maybe that's the movie that original Tron fans would still prefer to watch.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2010

That aunt died, and Depew was sole legatee.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford