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How to use bestow in a sentence

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The politicians used the trust's billions to bestow favors on corporations whose share prices needed a lift or to bolster a sagging stock market.
Male and female fans rushed to shake his hand and bestow congratulatory kisses.
They decided that they would take all of the magical power from the faeries and the other beings and bestow it upon these children.
This document has been designed to bestow some dignity on those who toil thanklessly in the vineyards of art.
They magnanimously bestow on our green spaces abundant spit, phlegm, nasal mucus, litter and noxious garbage of all kinds.
Oh, Lord, I thank you for this unlooked for bounty that you have seen fit to bestow on me.
Beyond this she was believed to be able to interpret dreams, had second sight and was able when the circumstances demanded to bestow a curse.
He would have slain the dragon, and slaying the dragon would bestow upon him exalted status.
Since then, governments have been nothing less than ingenious in creating ways to bestow largesse on the business world.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civil honor our nation can bestow and we award it today to 12 outstanding individuals.
In the evenings, exquisite bronze replicas of the deities travel bedecked in palanquins to bestow blessings on the townsfolk.
She is about to cast them away, to bestow them onto some unsuspecting pedestrian far below.
Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods.
They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants.
Not only is the self unable to bestow form from lived life, but also the objects themselves cannot receive it until they are abstracted from their lived-life utility.
And since he wished to completely satiate them with delight, He created a massive will to enjoy, well matched for His will to bestow pleasure.
And the lack of superfluous detail bestow it with both finesse and gracefulness.
It represents the highest honor the Canadian Forces can bestow on a civilian.
If you follow Him, He will certainly bestow on you pure and unsullied bliss.
Restaurants have a soft opening and weeks of tweaking before critics come calling to bestow stars.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And the knight, Sir Oliver Lollio, swore he would bestow a taffeta petticoat on thee, but to break his fast with thee.
Thus, then, your generosity can never be evinced but to him on whom you bestow your hand.
He had seen no Irishman of rank ever bestow a moment's attention on his tenantry.
All that had been withheld from him, by the mere experience of missing, he was able to bestow with largesse.
Shall we hesitate to devote to him whatever he claims, or whatever we can bestow?
Yet man has the impudence to expect the fannies to abstain till he is ready to bestow on them his name.
She wished to help him, to bestow on him the superabundance of her own happiness.
If the College is not what it should be, the more his self-interest should prompt him to bestow upon it his aid.
Her friend and champion was a volunteer, far from a mercenary, and he deserved the reward, if she could bestow it unalarmed.
And even involuntary kindness, grudging kindness, doesn't bestow upon the donor the right to direct the affairs of the donee.
Pray, also, give Nipkin a hint not to bestow any undue attention on Mr. Cashel, who wants to be incog.
Only once did he fling out and bestow an unmerited blow on the pork-barrel.
I suppose you have no objection this time to bestow a few bullets on these gentry?
Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits.
There she is welcomed by her numerous kinswomen, who stroke and lick her amorously, and bestow on her a maternal kiss.
Whether it's one solid black panel or criss-cross contrasting lines, the cinching effect will bestow a waist of enviable proportions.
I had all that unvarying affection and devoted love could bestow.
The rewards they bestow are sweet, and ravishing, and indescribable.
What amazing importance a fainting fit can sometimes bestow!
If only my malediction is needed for that, I bestow it upon him!
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