endow

Example Sentences

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Much of the picture is devoted to songs and dances, with the children trying to determine whether this ragtag minstrel is really endowed with supernatural abilities.

From The Wall Street Journal

David A. Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft and Workday, is giving $371.5 million to Cornell University, largely to endow the Ivy League school’s engineering college, which will be named after him.

From The Wall Street Journal

But no matter the score, they are all endowed with ebullience, charm and color under his baton.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even analog reward programs can alter consumer behavior because of the “endowed progress effect.”

From MarketWatch

But there’s a primal quality to the play’s conflicts that endows the work with an eternal vitality in the theater.

From Los Angeles Times