Sample Sentences forbequest (auto-selected)
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The total bequest was over a million dollars.bequest = a gift specified in a will (to be given upon death)
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His bequests are much as Red was himself—very simple and straightforward. (source)bequests = gifts specified in a will (upon death)
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The fourth paragraph contained a $50,000 bequest to Lettie Lang.† (source)
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Dumbledore left you a second bequest, Potter.† (source)
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The final two years of his college education had been paid for with a forty-thousand dollar bequest left by a friend of the family's; more than twenty-four thousand dollars remained at the time of Chris's graduation, money his parents thought he intended to use for law school.† (source)
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The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.† (source)
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That is another bequest from an early-dying parent, her image ever more childlike and powerless compared to your own advancing age.† (source)
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I imagine there would be a few bequests to personal friends or charities.† (source)
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Not even a compromising bequest!† (source)
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So many mulatto mistresses were left substantial fortunes in the wills of white property owners that the Jamaica legislature once passed a law capping bequests at two thousand pounds (which, at the time, was an enormous sum).† (source)
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There was just such an informality in the terms of the bequest as to give me no hope from law.† (source)
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Thomas L. Foster, noted philanthropist, had died and had left, among larger bequests, the modest sum of one hundred thousand dollars to Ellsworth M. Toohey, "my friend and spiritual guide—in appreciation of his noble mind and true devotion to humanity."† (source)
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Besides, the words Legacy, Bequest, go side by side with the words, Death, Funeral.† (source)
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According to what he said, I was, except for a few minor bequests to servants, the sole heir.† (source)
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Nobody can force you to accept this bequest.† (source)
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I had to go out to Waterbury just after Florence's death because the poor dear old fellow had left a good many charitable bequests and I had to appoint trustees.† (source)
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