be endowed with
Example Sentences
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How could lifeless plant matter be endowed with roots? he wondered.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2024
The new federal government was to be endowed with powers to tax, to borrow, to make private property inviolate, and to put down local insurrections.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2020
Both novels revel in describing what it’s like to be endowed with a great soprano voice, giving occasion to some of their most expressive passages.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2016
Within a generation, automobiles will be endowed with what’s known as Level 4 autonomy—full self-driving artificial intelligence for cars—which will not so much change the game as burn down the casino.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2015
In our schooldays we had to write the autobiographies of steel pens, and such-like, but these inanimate things had to be endowed with powers of thought, feeling, and desire.
From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert)
