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Example sentences for: possessive

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

The story touches on sex farce, but only briefly: This is a tale in which every possessive human act ends up driving the heroine closer--both spiritually and literally--to God.
Just below the happy nature's-bounty song promoted by REI lies the low hum of outdoor culture's ugliest trait, a possessive paranoia that keeps outsiders out and insiders in.
Take the idiosyncrasy in the use of personal pronouns, that of the lack of, or reluctance to use, accusative and dative cases or even the possessive.
The device is not without its pitfalls however, as witness the following: Henry David's a Restaurant . The combination of the possessive and the apposition creates a solecism unless we assume that a word was omitted--perhaps Pub or Saloon . I have passed the sign several times in the past few years and recently noted that it had been cleaned and repainted, but the apostrophe remains.
By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.