is bestowing
- present progressive of bestow (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But that’s not why the National Book Foundation is bestowing its 2025 Literarian Award on her later this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
"When the Chinese military conducts an exercise, it is showing force - it is bestowing or sending a message to other countries," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 2023
China is bestowing more clout on its science and technology ministry.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
In his book Pyramids of Sacrifice, Berger writes that the "elite almost invariably legitimates its privileged position in terms of alleged benefits it is bestowing or getting ready to bestow upon 'the people.'"
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021
Unappeased by Latinus' reiterated assertions that he is bestowing Lavinia upon a stranger merely to obey the gods, or by the entreaties in which Amata now joins, Turnus still refuses peace.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
