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possessions

How to use possessions in a sentence

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!

He took mental inventory of his possessions and what he could lay claim to, and he happened to think about his wife's homestead.

The next year he sailed from England with two hundred persons and settled in his new possessions.

Of the Ten Commandments, seven are designed as defences of the possessions and prerogatives of God and the property-owner.

The fervor of an Englishman's loyalty is usually in a direct ratio with the extent of his material possessions.

The King of Portugal was a powerful ruler and anxious for new possessions, yet he did not encourage Magellan.

He was unlike many who lived in those old days,—for he did not care for gold or great possessions.

But this did not prevent the continuance of hostilities in Brazil, and the other foreign possessions of Portugal.

Possibly their sole possessions consisted of the clothes they had on, a few bad pictures, and their several immortal geniuses.

He wanted to see his possessions, to feel his own earth beneath his feet, to feast his eyes on the glorious countryside.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985