given to

1. Tending toward, inclined to, as in She was given to eating crackers in bed. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

Long before the electronic device we now know as a computer came into being, “computer” was the job title given to the women who performed mathematical calculations for Langley’s engineers.

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Family legend has it that the coin was given to Dixon by a sweetheart to serve as a good luck charm through the Civil War battles.

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President Clinton, signed by both men after they shared a round of golf, an inscribed and signed Living Bible given to Simpson by Robert Kardashian, who was one of his defense lawyers in the murder trial, and a trophy Simpson received for being the first player in NFL history to rush more than 2,000 yards in a season in 1973.

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Sotheby’s chief executive Charles Stewart said seats will be given to people they anticipate will bid, not merely watch.

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A greater weight will be given to the public interest in removing foreign offenders and people who entered illegally.

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