Example Sentences

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“Go enjoy the weather,” the foreman said, as if he were bestowing the good weather upon us.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 3, 2018

“This is a gay figure, Pip,” said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

My intent is not to honor these passages as if I were bestowing a prize, nor to hold them up as models for you to emulate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He turned to Bailey, touched the top of his head with the pointer as if he were bestowing knighthood.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Their only consolation was, that they were bestowing a similar one on every wagon that they passed.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various