legatee

Example Sentences

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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?

From The New Yorker • Sep. 27, 2019

As a legatee of the civil rights struggles that peaked in the 1960s, he considers the nature of the movement’s achievements in light of present-day racial realities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2015

Its most famous legatee is Christopher Nolan, creator of Inception, and maybe that's the movie that original Tron fans would still prefer to watch.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2010

In the seclusion of her room she opened and thoroughly searched the box, but found only the original will in which John Thaneford had been named the residuary legatee.

From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel