Sentence examples for left a fortune from inspiring English sources

Her question, she would ask the "spirit world," her mother left a fortune to her stepfather.

When her husband, the Canadian financier and conglomerate head Paul Desmarais, Sr., died, in 2013, he left a fortune estimated by Forbes at $4.6 billion.

Her paternal grandfather, E. H. Harriman, head of the Union Pacific Railroad, had left a fortune estimated at $70 million to $100 million.

And once again, he is left a fortune by a distant relative: adjusted for inflation, the amount is $40 billion instead of $20 million.

Mary Erskine, "relict of James Hair, druggist," left a fortune for the foundation, in 1707, of the girls' school named after her.

James Donaldson, a publisher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, left a fortune that now provides a school for deaf children.

(In 1945, Lowry's father died, leaving a fortune that was the equivalent of ten million dollars).

The estate tax only affects people who leave a fortune of $5.49m or above to their heirs.

Gould remained ruthless, unscrupulous, and friendless to the end and died leaving a fortune estimated at $77 million.

He lost his deposit and died two months later, aged 64, leaving a fortune in trust to his family.

I do not want to leave a fortune to my children, because I do not think it is good for children to inherit a lot of money.