How to Use given to in a Sentence

given to

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  • What kinds of things were given to you?
    Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • It’s been given to you, the gift of life, which is free.
    Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
  • It has been given to 69 stars over the years.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The plain cloth is then given to the women.
    Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And it's not being given to him.
    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • So, how much time will I be given to try and turn things around?
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Or just given to Chad and Mindy to run wild.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
  • It was kind of given to me in Boston.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Even when all she’s given to do is shout, the show is broad enough to contain her.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This was done by the military and given to me.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • It was given to her the day she was deported.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Some of them have been given to great inventors.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Books that were given to me by my grandfather, who’s no longer here.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Caviar is the name given to mature sturgeon eggs.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Nothing is going to be given to you.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That night, door prizes will be given to the restaurant’s first 50 guests.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And so that was a really good piece of advice that was given to me.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • So it was very often given to soldiers as part of their rations.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • The award will be given to the best documentary film of the year.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Jan. 2026
  • More weight is given to wins against better teams and weighted even more if the game is on the road.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The hat was given to the boy, and apologies to the family.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Her time wasn’t good enough to grab one of the spots given to the two best third-place finishers.
    Isabel Yip, NBC news, 16 Feb. 2026
  • That was given to police and formed a key part of the evidence against him.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Why can’t a billion dollars be given to food banks around this country?
    Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This database work, when given to humans, often takes hours if not days.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • An awards buckle will be given to each of the three contestants with the fastest times.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But that laptop was never given to the police.
    Nick Davies, Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The aging drug is not something to be given to a dog on their deathbed, Haliou said.
    Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Phone booths for making calls weren’t yet set up, and tablets that detainees were given to call their lawyers didn’t work.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • There was no mention of any successor or a timeline given to name one.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026

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