Sample sentences for PROPRIETARY

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Definition

describing something as owned — such as a product protected by patent or a name protected by trademark

or:

showing characteristics of ownership

Tylenol is a proprietary drug that can be purchased in generic form as acetaminophen.

proprietary = describing something as owned — such as a product protected by patent or a name protected by trademark

My employment contract prohibits by sharing proprietary information with people outside of the firm.
She showed us her home with a proprietary pride.
The lower rooms were entirely given over to the birds, who walked about them with a proprietary air, as though the place had been built by themselves, and not by certain dusty copyholders who now lay east and west in the churchyard.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The software is proprietary, but you can license it.
She came in with such a proprietary haste, and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

proprietary = showing characteristics of ownership

It's the painting from whose frame a girl looks out, ignoring her beefy music teacher, whose proprietary hand rests on her chair.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
Now there are patents and proprietary information where there once was free information flow.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
She moves about the kitchen with command, in a proprietary way.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
And I didn't have any woman——Vida 's become so married and proprietary."
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Zaman seemed gently proprietary with the orphans.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
I've got a lunch date," he said, and immediately stooped to make a leisurely and proprietary examination of the interior of the fish tank.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
Ammu grew tired of their proprietary handling of her.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
I try to squirm away from him, but he keeps a proprietary arm slung around my hips.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
There was a watchful, almost proprietary expression on his face, and she felt an instant's jealousy.
Stephen King -- Cujo
Though he had been repulsed he could not cease being proprietary.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
'This is a pretty good tree,' he observed admiringly with proprietary gratitude.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
No, no. That's proprietary information.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
I wished Boney and Gilpin were here, had witnessed the proprietary tone of Desi's voice: I know Amy.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
She saw the proprietary hand Sarah put on her father's arm and thought it just as well to stay where she was.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

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