How do you use the word "grant" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "grant" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "grant": Even if I grant that what you say is true, it is no excuse. God grant that you come home safe and sound.

Grant Meaning

/ɡɹɑːnt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo give (permission or wish).

verbTo give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).

Sentence Examples

Even if I grant that what you say is true, it is no excuse.

God grant that you come home safe and sound.

The film features Cary Grant as a professor.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

award allow assignment

Antonyms:

deny

CEFR Practice Quiz

The small university received a federal ____ to study climate change.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The university received a large research ____ to study the effects of climate change on local ecosystems.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"c. 1930, Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity[…]" —

"In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]" — 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

""They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,—occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression is totally lacking."" — 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages 23–24:

"Before I would have granted to that act. But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor." — c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

"He could open that footlocker once in awhile^([sic]) and look at actual cash, loads of bills, tens, twenties, eagles, Grants, Lincolns, Washingtons." — 1968, Earl Conrad, Billy Rose, Manhattan Primitive, Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 181:

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