Sample Sentences fordispossess (auto-selected)
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In the countersuit she charged that the lenders were conspiring to dispossess her of her property.dispossess = take away possession of something
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Too many have been dispossessed of their heritage, and we have banded together in brotherhood so as to do something about it. (source)dispossessed = deprived (had something taken away from them)
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In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain.† (source)
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A robbery would be a relief since it would dispossess my mind of the fear of something else.† (source)
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Do you think the organization would let the landlord dispossess him?† (source)
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Will you do as I ask, or will you dispossess me and lead the Varden yourself?† (source)
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Hers too, was an ancient, age-old feat The fear of being dispossessed.† (source)
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I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails that'll blow you out in the street!† (source)
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As far as Leila was concerned, the valley represented an act of colonial theft and dispossession.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required.† (source)
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Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.† (source)
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Restless Amata lay, her swelling breast Fir'd with disdain for Turnus dispossess'd, And the new nuptials of the Trojan guest.† (source)
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Especially when we handed him the following typewritten rules and regulations for the Secret Annex (a van Daan production): PROSPECTUS AND GUIDE TO THE SECRET ANNEX A Unique Facility for the Temporary Accommodation of Jews and Other Dispossessed Persons Open all year round: Located in beautiful, quiet, wooded surroundings in the heart of Amsterdam.† (source)
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And so it was from the 'Guermantes way' that I learned to distinguish between these states which reigned alternately in my mind, during certain periods, going so far as to divide every day between them, each one returning to dispossess the other with the regularity of a fever and ague: contiguous, and yet so foreign to one another, so devoid of means of communication, that I could no longer understand, or even picture to myself, in one state what I had desired or dreaded or even done in the other.† (source)
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I had resolved to be calm about my dispossession, to keep my mind on the goal I had given myself.† (source)
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Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro.† (source)
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