Sample Sentences for
legacy
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    Her parents left her a small legacy.
    legacy = money left after their death
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    I wanted to give our children a legacy of freedom, not a legacy of fear.  (source)
    legacy = something passed from one generation to the next
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    They were one more part of the legacy Timothy had left me.  (source)
    legacy = something someone created and left from the past
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    In no time the building is in flames. ... I remember the look on Daddy's face the day Mr. Wyatt handed him the keys to the grocery store; Mr. Reuben and all those pictures on his walls, showing years and years of a legacy he's built;  (source)
    legacy = something built with a long-lasting impact
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    Your Legacies are going to appear any day now.  (source)
    Legacies = gifts
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    Her intimacy there had made him seriously determine on her being handsomely legacied hereafter; and to speak of her therefore as the almost acknowledged future heiress of Fullerton naturally followed.†  (source)
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    Papaw Shack was six feet four inches, and a strong legacy of basketball players continues to this day in our family because of him.  (source)
    legacy = something coming from the past
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    In both places, young men go through a daily struggle trying to navigate their way through deadly streets, poverty, and the twin legacies of exclusion and low expectations.  (source)
    legacies = things left from the past
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    This was a minor setback, he'd give them that, but his work would live on. His legacy. His life.  (source)
    legacy = something left behind after one is gone
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    Plus, a lot of the campers are legacies—second or third generation.  (source)
    legacies = people whose parents or grandparents preceded them in the organization
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    What will the legacy of this vanishing century be?  (source)
    legacy = notable thing left to the future
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    Can we learn something about why people succeed and how to make people better at what they do by taking cultural legacies seriously?  (source)
    legacies = things passed from one generation to the next
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    Even a legacy of a lie is better than hate.  (source)
    legacy = something coming from the past
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