dispossessed

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Both sides of his family had been oppressed under Stalin; his grandfather on his father’s side was executed in 1939, and his mother and her family were dispossessed and deported from Poland in 1945.

From New York Times

Australia's Indigenous population shrank after the British colonisation in 1788 as they were dispossessed of their land, exposed to new diseases, forced to work in slave-like conditions, and killed by colonisers.

From Reuters

Across southern Africa there are San people who argue that their communities have been dispossessed of their land.

From BBC

He did this more in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, a raconteur for the dispossessed, than in the spirit of aspiring writers with expensive educations and bohemian surroundings.

From Salon

“There was no sense of the larger phenomenon … of a growing, dispossessed … population that had been pretty much left behind by everyone,” he said.

From Seattle Times