dispossess

Example Sentences

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"Hold On to Me" from Cyprus traces the efforts of an 11-year-old tracking down her estranged father, while documentary "Kikuyu Land" from Kenya examines how powerful outside forces use local corruption to dispossess a people.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

They were visualizing that they would just dispossess them.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2024

The Manchester United defender required treatment on the pitch but was able to carry on, and soon proved he was fine with a masterful back-heeled tackle to dispossess Sesko.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2023

Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2023

The commissioners gave impartial testimony here, for they were trying to dispossess Massachusetts of the government she had assumed over Maine since 1652.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams