LEGACY in a Sentence

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For LEGACY, below is one of 32 sentences:
But to Lily herself, aware that the legacy could not be put to such a use, the preliminary training seemed a wasted effort.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEGACY
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legacy
 n.  gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  But to Lily herself, aware that the legacy could not be put to such a use, the preliminary training seemed a wasted effort.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  And the realization of this fact brought her recurringly face to face with the temptation to use the legacy in establishing her business.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5  The legacy, then, had been paid sooner than Gerty had led him to expect.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  There was also a legacy of one thousand pounds.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
10  The legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau is the heavy heritage of this generation.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
11  That is the large legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau, the work it did not do because it could not.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
12  And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
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
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 ...
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.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
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.