6 sentences with 'gifts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gifts and other words derived from it.
• « Marlee Bretz possessed remarkable musical gifts. She had won prizes for singing, flute and piano. »
• « Marina later explained to the boy's parents that their son had great gifts and that more rigorous instruction was in order. »
• « Henry II himself exhibited no special gifts as a financier at Ford Motor Company. He was never a great businessman. Nor did he boast of technical expertise. »
• « Christmas. One of Karen's favorite gifts that year was from her mother: five soaps in the shape of shells. »
• « They gambled with tax exemptions, gifts and benefits to encourage loyalty to Egypt rather than simply threatening people with divine power or armies. »
• « The caliph's palace was so huge that it occupied one-third of Baghdad. He and the greatest European king of the early Middle Ages, Charlemagne, exchanged gifts and friendly letters, albeit for political expediency: Charlemagne was the enemy of the Cordovan Caliphate of Spain, the last vestige of Umayyad power, and the Abbasids acted as an external pressure which Charlemagne hoped would make the Byzantine emperors recognise the legitimacy of his imperial title. »