LEGACY in a Sentence
Learn LEGACY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
32 example sentences for LEGACY, such as:
1. An elderly cousin had left her a small legacy.
2. There was also a legacy of one thousand pounds.
3. It's this which many see as the abiding legacy of Watergate.
4. They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
5. The court would not even consider his claim for the old man' s legacy.
2. There was also a legacy of one thousand pounds.
3. It's this which many see as the abiding legacy of Watergate.
4. They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
5. The court would not even consider his claim for the old man' s legacy.
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Meanings and Examples of LEGACY
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legacy
n. (law) a gift of personal property by will
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 Unfortunately I had spent the money before I discovered my mistake; and so my legacy will have to go to pay it back.
2 Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
3 But to Lily herself, aware that the legacy could not be put to such a use, the preliminary training seemed a wasted effort.
4 And the realization of this fact brought her recurringly face to face with the temptation to use the legacy in establishing her business.
5 The legacy, then, had been paid sooner than Gerty had led him to expect.
6 He took nothing by it, and has left a legacy of sorrow to myself, for he has been gone a long time, and we know not whether he is alive or dead.
7 I need not narrate in detail the further struggles I had, and arguments I used, to get matters regarding the legacy settled as I wished.
8 There was also a legacy of one thousand pounds.
9 The passing of a great human institution before its work is done, like the untimely passing of a single soul, but leaves a legacy of striving for other men.
10 The legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau is the heavy heritage of this generation.
11 That is the large legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau, the work it did not do because it could not.
12 And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars.
13 He accepted, from his sister's stock of ready money, a small sum on account of his legacy; barely enough, I should have thought, to keep him for a month.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
14 As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain unknown.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
15 This legacy, deposited in the hands of a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at the date of her marriage.
Example Sentence:
1 He doesn't want to admit it yet, but the legacy he's so desperately trying to salvage is already broken down.
2 It's this which many see as the abiding legacy of Watergate.
3 His main legacy is the successful move into the internet era and the launch of the Coffee House blog, which has become a must read for anyone in politics.
4 Now the wealth did not weigh on me: now it was not a mere bequest of coin, it was a legacy of life, hope, enjoyment.
5 The main impediment is overcoming the legacy of mismanagement and waste left by the previous Government.
6 While critics have attacked Dickens's legacy, the organizers reply that the writer was a great popular entertainer.
7 The court would not even consider his claim for the old man' s legacy.
8 They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
9 An elderly cousin had left her a small legacy.
10 The 2014 Winter Olympics are meant to revitalise the city of Sochi, improve Russia's image abroad, and become the cornerstone of President Vladimir Putin's legacy.
11 One of Mr. Barak's legacies is that more Israelis now know that an eventual peace agreement with the Palestinians will have to involve a deal on Jerusalem.