How to Use bequeath in a Sentence

bequeath

verb
Definition of bequeathnext
Synonyms for bequeathnext
  • He bequeathed his paintings to the museum.
  • Lessons of the past are bequeathed to future generations.
  • By the end of the song, Martin confidently bequeaths Mendes the honor of finishing the track with his voice alone.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The bandeau and the brooch were bequeathed by Queen Mary to The Queen in 1953.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 19 May 2018
  • Life, and the weight of what is bequeathed, can be unfair.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • This is the first step in reclaiming the legacy bequeathed to us by the Founders.
    — Saul Cornell, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • But Kim Jong Un was 27 when he was bequeathed the country.
    — Anna Fifield, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
  • The legacy Bertrand bequeathed to her daughter lives on in full force both in Jolie’s life and in the lives of her kids.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 28 May 2017
  • Baez lost command of the strike zone, missing high and low to bequeath Wolters first base.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
  • Want to bequeath sparkle but don’t love the thought of taking out a second mortgage?
    — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • She was then bequeathed to his son Thomas Howlett, according to his will.
    — The Root, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Atha bequeathed the painting to the museum as a partial gift in 1986.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Their place in the standings ahead of Seattle has been earned, not bequeathed because of the Mariners’ uneven play.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
  • That’s because millions of firms owned by baby boomers will be for sale or bequeathed over the next two decades.
    — Anne Field, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The scene takes place in 1917, when Redshirt bequeaths the powerful amulet to young Sam Tallman.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • Evolution did not bequeath us a brain and a mind that is good at adopting long-term healthy habits.
    — Emma Seppälä, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The man has no kids or immediate next of kin to bequeath the estate to who could preserve it.
    — Tim Latterner, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Wait too long and leaders throughout this region will bequeath to their grandkids the bill for 2020.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • A minute later, the neighbors were recounting how good each of them had been to the deceased old man and what the deceased had promised to bequeath to whom.
    — Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • News of her mother’s sudden passing takes her back home and to the even more shocking news that her mother has bequeathed the house to her.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • And that is exactly the kind of bravery that his grandfather bequeathed to him.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2018
  • Sally could leave a will that specifically bequeaths the house to Dave.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Three years ago, the Butkus Foundation bequeathed its high school version of the award to Jefferson.
    — Nick Moyle, Houston Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
  • These were bequeathed to the Egyptian government upon his death in 1945.
    — Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The nephews’ descendants had lived there until the 1960s, when the final heir bequeathed it to her nurse, a relative of the butcher.
    — Hussein Omar Simon Watson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There is nothing new to pass on, no greater knowledge to bequeath the next generation.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Politicians bequeathed their seats to their sons and, less commonly, wives and daughters.
    — Philip Issa, Fox News, 7 May 2018
  • The family says the artist had given the painting to his sister Marie, who bequeathed it to her nephew, Philippe’s grandfather.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • The shack — one of 19 that persist along the windswept edge of Provincetown’s northwest shore — was bequeathed to the painter by the original owner, a close family friend.
    — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • Some of those people stayed in Africa and passed the segments to living Africans; others left and bequeathed the diverse alleles to Neanderthals.
    — science.org, 13 July 2024

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