bestowal

Example Sentences

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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

With the bestowal of the Knopf emblem, the coursing Borzoi dog that has long served as an imprimatur of literary quality, he conferred on a book almost instant cachet.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019

The went to Michael Lewis, the man who coined the phrase, and conveyed his bestowal of blessings.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2012

I wonder if the bestowal made us just a little bit different.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2011

The liberality of Mrs. Sowerberry to Oliver had consisted in a profuse bestowal upon him of all the dirty odds and ends which nobody else would eat.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)