ENDOWMENT in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for ENDOWMENT, such as:

1. He endowed a bed in a hospital.
2. She is endowed with great musical ability.
3. The hospital was founded on an endowment fund.
4. We donate to the school endowment fund every year.
5. Nature has endowed her with beauty and intelligence.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENDOWMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
endowment
 n.  gift; donation; funds or property donated to an individual or group
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
2  The last time I saw him, which was a few months before he died, he gave me fifty thousand dollars toward our endowment fund.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
3  In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
4  The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
5  He is endowed with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS
6  The titi is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed with wings and soaring.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
7  He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness and rectitude than ever.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
8  The host, who was not endowed with great perspicacity, did not observe the expression which his words had given to the physiognomy of the stranger.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
9  Like those unfortunate persons endowed with a fatal gift, she brought misfortune upon everything she touched.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
10  I practiced this exercise, and as nature has endowed me with some faculties, at this day I can throw the lasso with any man in the world.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
11  Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
12  Such, then, were the splendours with which the gods had endowed the house of king Alcinous.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
13  Mercury himself had endowed him with this gift, for he used to burn the thigh bones of goats and kids to him, so he took pleasure in his companionship.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
14  My dear," said he, "heaven has endowed you with a heart more unyielding than woman ever yet had.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIII
15  He had always wanted girls to flirt and frolic with him as they did with boys much less handsome and less endowed with this world's goods than he.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  There are tests which can establish a baby's genetic endowment.
2  We donate to the school endowment fund every year.
3  The hospital was founded on an endowment fund.
4  His generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time.
5  That endowment shrank 0.05 percent in the fiscal year ended in 2012.
6  She is endowed with great musical ability.
7  He endowed a bed in a hospital.
8  Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.
9  In her will, she endowed a scholarship in the physics department.
10  Hong Kong has been endowed with one of the finest natural harbors in the world.
11  Hong Kong has been endowed with one of the finest natural harbours in the world.
12  Nature has endowed her with beauty and intelligence.
13  The rich businessman endowed the hospital with half his fortune.
14  Her resistance to the Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.
15  Furthermore, Patricia has established the terms for the student award that the policy will fully endow when she passes away.