How to Use bequest in a Sentence

bequest

noun

• He made a bequest of his paintings to the museum.
• But the total given through bequests varies quite a bit from year to year.
  — Christina Daniken, The Conversation, 24 June 2025
• First, current law does not treat a bequest as a sale so no income tax is due at death.
  — Steve Rosenthal, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• One of them is a tax on all wealth received over one's lifetime in the form of bequests and gifts.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2016
• And more than a third of that was raised in the past year through a pair of donor bequests, Kaplan said.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
• Of that, $75 million is in the form of bequests from donors who are still living.
  — David Heinzmann, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019
• This stock will be a majority of his bequest to my siblings and me.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• At the bequest of fans, Marvel has made progress in telling more diverse stories.
  — NBC News, 2 Jan. 2020
• Read that way, a 20% annual jump in bequest giving isn't a good year.
  — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
• Most people don't know about or understand the concept of bequests.
  — Randall P. Lieberman, Jewish Journal, 15 May 2017
• And then there is the art museum that will not even allow inquiries about making a bequest.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
• Is the bequest to the children infinite in size or zero in value?
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• When there’s no entity willing to accept a bequest on your terms, try to arrange a sale.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
• Look at how the potential changes to the transfer tax system might impact that bequest.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• The couple plans to leave the collection to the museum as a bequest.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Three of the past four years have shown big growth in bequests, which may indicate that the great wealth transfer has begun.
  — ABC News, 23 June 2026
• The preserve was acquired in a bequest from Kathryn Wriston last year.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 13 July 2018
• Debate ensued in Congress about whether to accept the bequest at all.
  — Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
• That bequest can include directions that the money be spent meeting the pet’s needs.
  — Allison Anna Tait, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
• The prize money comes from a bequest from Nobel, who died in 1895.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• Her bequest remains the Trust’s largest acquisition in the area.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
• Seid’s bequest to Leonard Leo was a complex tax maneuver long in the planning.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• Flowers and lignin were helpful bequests from seagrass land ancestors.
  — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
• Perhaps even more extraordinary than the nine-figure bequest is the utter lack of strings tied to the gift.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
• Your church is not going to receive the full $1 million bequest because there simply is not enough money to fund it.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
• The young adults may receive a firearm as a gift or bequest, Lorenz noted, and through other exceptions carved out in the law.
  — Christian Martinez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
• Kroc's 2003 bequest was valued at more than $200 million at the time.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
• The Gummere bequest is one part of an overall campaign to increase the school’s endowment.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
• The art was uninsured under the terms of the bequest that created the museum, and empty frames now hang where art was displayed.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The art was uninsured under the terms of the bequest that created the museum, and empty frames now hang where the art was displayed.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 28 Feb. 2022