bestowal
Example Sentences
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During the Bronze Age, from 3300 B.C. to 1200 B.C., donkeys were sometimes buried with humans, indicating a bestowal of honor on both parties.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
The surprise bestowal drew a wave of roaring applause that Obama struggled to quell, and that the rest of the convention struggled to match.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020
While he no doubt hopes this bestowal of stiff punishment puts the issue to rest, that won’t be the case, anymore than the Mitchell Report ended the scourge of performance-enhancing drugs for baseball.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
The went to Michael Lewis, the man who coined the phrase, and conveyed his bestowal of blessings.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012
In the apportionment of praise, he would resent a bestowal that made her unequal to himself; nor would he fail to recognize the services of his children.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith
