How to Use endow in a Sentence

endow

verb

• 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.
• One, a number of years ago, was when the foundation was endowed.
  — Noel Burgess, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• Watson seemed to be endowed with the kind of clerical skills humans use on a host of real-world problems.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2018
• On the plus side, the journalism department at alma mater Stanford just got him endowed as a Knight chair.
  — Dwight Perry / Sideline Chatter, The Seattle Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• What turns a man professionally endowed to treat the mental ailments of others into one who goes mental himself?
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• China has decided to endow its president, Xi Jinping, with the power to rule for life.
  — Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• There is an unwritten rule that all Caucasian children are endowed at birth with the assumption of pure innocence until someone proves otherwise.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Mar. 2018
• In recent days, Calendar 2 developer Qbix endowed it with code that mines the digital coin known as Monero.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2018
• The years of hard work paid off in earning a president’s endowed scholarship to Texas A&M University.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 2 Feb. 2018
• Nothing is stranger, in this very strange film, than the mystical power with which pop culture is endowed; one vital riddle can be solved only by somebody versed in the works of John Hughes.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• Israel is the only place in a very, very broad circle in the Middle East and beyond where the Arab citizens of Israel are fully endowed with rights.
  — Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
• The only ones known that are so endowed are the lampreys.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• For these reasons—as well as the physical pain and discomfort that comes with being extremely well-endowed—breast-reduction surgery can be a game-changer, says Dr. Golas.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The prize is endowed by the Schmidts, who are collectors and patrons, through 2030.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2024
• With the courage endowed by two beers, Ms. Shaw put herself forward.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• If brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• Shaw had endowed his flower girl with a much greater gift than a good ear: the ability to be free of her own sculptor.
  — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
• Only then should they be endowed with power that would be hard to revoke.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
• In his prime Davis was endowed with a sixth sense for assessing talent.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Nor did it faze voters in Myanmar, where many endowed her with a saintlike stature.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 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
• But in 2009, one of her former students, who has since passed away, endowed a scholarship in her name.
  — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• 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
• These sentiments would feel plastic in a vacuum, but the context of their genre allows them to be relocated into a messy spandex myth several decades in the making, and in doing so endows them with the weight of several Hollywood lifetimes.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024