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 of the pair again by unknown means.
From BBC
“Titanic: Real Artifacts, Real People, Real Stories” The maritime disaster is revisited through photographs and personal effects on view through Feb. 13.
From Los Angeles Times
When it comes to distributing the personal effects of others, I subscribe to the “do no harm” doctrine.
From New York Times
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