Sentence examples for once bestowed from inspiring English sources

I have seen the most intimate objects proceed to other hands, indifferent to the love once bestowed on them.

But it is all too well known that new licenses, once bestowed, would be good for another two decades.

Bryant was similarly held at arm's length by Lakers fans, many of whom regarded him with something of the cool admiration they once bestowed on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Mr. Innis routinely rents himself out as Black Friend to Disgraced Whites and once bestowed a lifetime CORE membership on Idi Amin.

Before, after, and sometimes even during gigs, many of the city's eminent jazz musicians flock to Fat Cat, where they compete for an elusive variant of a title once bestowed on Benny Goodman-the "King of Ping".

True, he once bestowed Nelson Mandela with a crystal replica of a Heinz ketchup bottle, the same kind he displays in the study of his castle south of Dublin.

These strikers hide out in a utopian compound in the mountains of Colorado while the rest of us despondently wail and gnash our teeth and beg for them to once again bestow their creativity upon us.

Her fiction has tilted at times toward the grand and the instructional, and once the Swedish Academy bestowed its laurels, the response to her books broke down into two categories: prostrate worship and gleeful nose-thumbing.

And last month Imelda Marcos, whose vast shoe holdings once epitomized state greed, bestowed her blessing on a new footwear museum in the Philippines.

Most of them are certainly remote from the political and literary avant-gardism of their youth, and most enjoy the measure of fame and fortune that the system they once ferociously condemned has bestowed on them.

"It's like a second government". Although Usoyan, like all true vory v zakone, or "thieves-in-law" – a once hard-won status bestowed upon the highest ranks of Russia's criminal underworld – owned no property himself, he was believed to maintain ties to many businesses in the city.