Example Sentences

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In my seat, I could feel the tug on my sleeve from 24 years ago of my 5-year-old, on whom I was bestowing the gift of musical theater.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2021

Three decades after helping his Motown elder Smokey to a No. 1 hit, 49-year-old Stevie Wonder was bestowing another on a new generation.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2016

Earlier in the day, Atlantic Media announced that it was bestowing its 2016 Michael Kelly Award on Ms. Rubin for her series of articles on women in Afghanistan.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016

Yet, needing peace desperately, Chou successfully managed to convince most of the world that he was bestowing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

And this at the very time when another mind was bestowing twenty years of labour on its “consideration.”

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John