Example sentences for: possessions

How can you use “possessions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On Sunday, Le Monde reported on an inside page that Pinochet's lawyers were pleading "mental indisposition" as grounds for sending him home, but it devoted its front-page lead to Monday's 44 nation Washington conference on the restitution to victims of the Holocaust of possessions stolen from them by the Nazis and their foreign collaborators, describing it as the most important such meeting ever held.

  • Similarly, as part of the Small Business Job Protection Act, the Congress phased out tax credits to corporations for certain income earned in Puerto Rico and U.S. possessions.

  • Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.

  • Many names point to the appearance, customs, staple diet, occupation, possessions or stamping ground of a tribe, as in the following:

  • Following his August 2001 arrest, the FBI discovered among his possessions a fax copy of an advertisement for U.S. flight schools.


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