Sample Sentences for
bequeath
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    I, Samuel W. Westing, otherwise known as Sandy McSouthers and others, do hereby give and bequeath all the property and possessions in my name as follows:  (source)
    bequeath = leave upon death
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    I, Theodore Finch, being of unsound mind, do hereby bequeath all my earthly possessions to Charlie Donahue, Brenda Shank-Kravitz, and my sisters.  (source)
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    Bequeathing a legacy.  (source)
    Bequeathing = leaving after one's death
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    I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.  (source)
    bequeathed = passed down
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    He decided to bequeath Henry his video games.  (source)
    bequeath = give or pass down
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    For a while, I toyed with the idea of bequeathing the entire collection to Andrea Lockerby, if only because she, too, had loved Daniel.  (source)
    bequeathing = leaving upon death
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    Then comes our very* gentleness of grace; *true It was no thing bequeath'd us with our place.†  (source)
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    She bequeaths her stuffed toys to Gloria's fourteen-year-old daughter.  (source)
    bequeaths = passes down
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    The Originatress comes, The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld, Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion, Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments, With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes, The race of Brahma comes.†  (source)
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    When Esperanza, my mother, returned from her wedding trip, all that she found under the remains of what had been the ranch was this cookbook, which she bequeathed to me when she died, and which tells in each of its recipes this story of a love interred.  (source)
    bequeathed = passed down (upon death)
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    The Latin dictionary was the first of thirteen thousand volumes which he would eventually buy and, at his death, bequeath to the Boston Public Library.  (source)
    bequeath = leave (upon death)
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    This despite the fact that everyone he met, each one of us he encountered inside and outside his office and circle, even and perhaps especially strangers, the curious citizenry of the streets, Kwang made feel as though he were bequeathing a significant part of himself.  (source)
    bequeathing = giving or passing down
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    And, To any question he was silent too, I still interpreted the nods he made, Through weakness, for consent: and sent home th' others, Nothing bequeath'd them, but to cry and curse.†  (source)
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