possession

Example Sentences

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It is the nature of childhood possessions that the child is always outgrowing them, and this is how things are meant to be.

From The Wall Street Journal

In September he greeted his uncle who had been deported without any possessions to provide him with a backpack of essentials, courtesy of a grassroots mutual aid project, the Ba Lô Project.

From Salon

Pupils are allowed to keep their phones in their possession but expected to keep them in the pouches until the bell rings at the end of their final lesson.

From BBC

"We lost a lot of people and our possessions. We lived a difficult and harsh life, displaced from one city to another, under bombardment and in terror."

From Barron's

But on the ensuing possession, Maiava threw into heavy coverage in the seam.

From Los Angeles Times