personal effects

Example Sentences

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They spent about five years digging through their brother’s artworks and personal effects — paintings and drawings, but also clothing, notebooks, dinner china, travel souvenirs — to produce the exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times

In what should be the living room, housemates lie or sit among mattresses, bedding, mosquito nets and half-packed bags with personal effects strewn all over the floor.

From BBC

This includes a claim Mr MacDowell - then aged 35 - disposed of the bodies and personal effects.

From BBC

For the Met Gala, Mr. Linnetz designed a custom version using scraps of fabric and antique quilts sewn back together, including a few personal effects, like his dad’s bathrobe.

From New York Times

In general, young people expressed more worry about the personal effects of climate change than their older counterparts.

From Seattle Times