Endow is an English word with synonyms like gift or indue. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Endow in a sentence
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Endow meaning
- To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
- To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
- To naturally furnish (with something).
Using Endow
- The main meaning on this page is: To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. | To naturally furnish (with something).
- Useful related words include: gift, indue, empower, invest.
- In the example corpus, endow often appears in combinations such as: to endow, endow the, the endow.
Context around Endow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Endow
- In this selection, "endow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fully, permanently, players, two and economically stand out and add context to how "endow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include endow with thy and filmmaker to endow the dramas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "endow" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with endow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The sport can endow players with traits such as mental toughness and endurance. (13 words)
But the aircraft promises to endow the U.S. military with capabilities that are absolutely necessary in future combat. (19 words)
The appeal, run by the Twenty Club, used it to endow two children’s cots at the Memorial Hospital. (19 words)
Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those who in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. (45 words)
McMullen Seapower Symposium Program for 2013 In order to preserve and promote a better understanding of professional naval heritage in midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Academy's Class of 1957 donated the funds to permanently endow this position. (41 words)
Abrams is too slick and shallow a filmmaker to endow the dramas of repression and insurgency, of family fate and individual destiny, of solidarity and the will to power, with their full moral and metaphysical weight. (36 words)
Example sentences (15)
She said that while it did open doors for her it wasn’t the ‘endow’ to everything she wanted to do.
The sport can endow players with traits such as mental toughness and endurance.
When Marv was serving on the FAC Board of Trustees in 1996, he founded the Fine Arts Center Foundation, set up to endow the center for the future.
But the aircraft promises to endow the U.S. military with capabilities that are absolutely necessary in future combat.
The appeal, run by the Twenty Club, used it to endow two children’s cots at the Memorial Hospital.
They would then have to raise another $50 million or so over the next five years to fully endow the teams; the school’s current overall endowment is about $110 million.
Abrams is too slick and shallow a filmmaker to endow the dramas of repression and insurgency, of family fate and individual destiny, of solidarity and the will to power, with their full moral and metaphysical weight.
Ruan made a similar investment, held it longer and walked away with $300 million, part of which he later used to endow the World Food Prize.
The university system also will use non-state funds to endow a $2.5 million trust for its preservation and possibly a facility to house it.
Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those who in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth.
Notably, individual campus units saw several $1 million donations, such as $1 million to endow a faculty chair in mathematics.
The ENDOW (Economically Needed Diversity Options for Wyoming) Executive Council released their 20-year economic diversification strategy yesterday, prior to a press conference held this morning with members of the media.
In creation science, the creator is defined as limitless, with the capacity to create (or not), through fiat alone, infinite universes, not just one, and endow each one with its own unique, unimaginable and incomparable character.
McMullen Seapower Symposium Program for 2013 In order to preserve and promote a better understanding of professional naval heritage in midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Academy's Class of 1957 donated the funds to permanently endow this position.
Quotient metric spaces If M is a metric space with metric d, and ~ is an equivalence relation on M, then we can endow the quotient set M/~ with the following (pseudo)metric.
Common combinations with endow
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to endow 8×
- endow the 7×
- the endow 2×
- can endow 2×