How to Use endow in a Sentence

endow

verb
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  • The wealthy couple endowed a new wing of the hospital.
  • The money will be used to endow the museum and research facility.
  • She plans to endow a faculty position at the university.
  • It’s unknown whom the king will endow with the crown and diamond.
    — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Shiny black zip-up boots endowed his steps with a peppy bounce.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • With the courage endowed by two beers, Ms. Shaw put herself forward.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Being on land for the first time this year, Holy Ship! had the chance to endow these sunset slots with even more magic by placing them right on the beach.
    — Harry Levin, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Music and years have endowed her with confidence and courage.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 13 July 2023
  • Revivals endow the past with the charm of distance and inconsequence.
    — Christopher Lasch, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • A couple of bright, shining hours can endow a day with a felicitous look and feel.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • In endowing us with religion, the moon taught humans a new form of thinking.
    — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Sovereign wealth funds could endow the states with a permanent source of revenue, even when the oil stops flowing.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Umaña endows Victoria with a fiery dignity that doesn’t need the replay of her fraught last days in office.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The couple’s gift in 2006 endowed the full tuition subsidy and special funding for student research projects and study abroad.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The school said the dress was given to the priest to be used to support the drama department and that the proceeds from the auction will endow a faculty chair position.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 May 2022
  • According to the group, those interested can endow a tree for $1,000.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Civil rights, of course, come after human rights, and human rights are endowed by our creator.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2020
  • In this case, Jesus is replaced by a less holy (but much better endowed) figure, and his acolytes are far from angelic.
    — B.f. | Kendal, The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Modern donors may prefer to endow a new museum or a concert wing.
    — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2022
  • In his mind, humans, rocks and trees were all endowed with an invisible kinship.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Why not endow it with more of the European style flavor buyers might be expecting?
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Growing up east of Portland in a family of high-profile throwers, he was born endowed with genetics for the sport.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The searching young protagonist is certainly endowed with a sense of her artistry.
    — Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And six-piston Brembo front brake calipers endow the V with a firmer and more responsive brake pedal, though its initial bite comes off as a bit too grabby for our tastes.
    — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 13 June 2022
  • In addition, the gift will endow the John W. Fitzpatrick Directorship for the center, in honor of the lab’s longtime leader.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • In my case, the engineer endows the writer with a desire for efficiency.
    — Martin Dumont, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2020
  • There is no psychology in these paintings, nor does the painter use eye contact or gesture to endow his sitters with anything much in the way of agency.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • It’s a bike that can endow you with superhuman pedaling power up to 28 mph.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Jay Leno, for example, has endowed two scholarships at the college.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
  • Donors can endow individual shelves, for eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents each.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021

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