ownerless

Example Sentences

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Ernesto’s hopes to change the culture of violence toward animals that roam the region in part by going out to villages to sterilize ownerless dogs and other rabid animals.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2023

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

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

Bona Vacantia means vacant goods and is the name given to ownerless property, which by law passes to the Crown.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2015

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

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