ownerless

Example Sentences

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“Entire families were dying, and the half-ruined ownerless huts would remain deserted for years,” he remembered.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

Mantashe said although every operational mine is required by law to plan and fund mine rehabilitation at the end of operations, the government was facing problems with "ownerless and derelict mines."

From Reuters • Aug. 11, 2022

It was earlier than my parents had planned to get me a cellphone, but there it was, ownerless and being paid for in their Verizon plan … so what the heck.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2021

And in the midst of this: an apparently ownerless cat which has had enough of the heated atmosphere barricades itself ‘in the wall’, requiring the residents to collaborate.

From Fox News • Apr. 21, 2020

This ownerless ruin had, before World War Terminus, been tended and maintained.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick