worldly goods

Example Sentences

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A will allows you to distribute your worldly goods, select a guardian for minor children and name an executor to carry out your wishes.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021

In about 280, Antony sold his goods and retreated to the desert to contemplate the divine, eschewing all worldly goods in imitation of the poverty of Christ.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Deniz Tas, 38, a kebab chef in a Hasankeyf restaurant, sits amid his family’s worldly goods in the back of a green flatbed truck, ready to head over the bridge to the new town.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2019

You can use the document simply to let people know how you want your worldly goods to be distributed after your passing.

From Encyclopedia.com • Sep. 19, 2018

“I leave it to Pater Leoden to distribute the remainder of my worldly goods among the parish, as, being an immoral soul, I will have no further need of them.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss