TESTAMENT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for TESTAMENT, such as:

1. Her solicitor drew up her last will and testament.
2. The aircraft's safety record is a testament to its designers' skill.
3. The immaculate state of the garden bears testament to a lifetime's effort.

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 Meanings and Examples of TESTAMENT
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testament
 n.  solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will
Classic Sentence:
1  All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
2  Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself restrained.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
3  It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Example Sentence:
1  The immaculate state of the garden bears testament to a lifetime's effort.
2  The aircraft's safety record is a testament to its designers' skill.
3  Her solicitor drew up her last will and testament.