POSSESSIVE in a Sentence

Learn POSSESSIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
277 example sentences for POSSESSIVE, such as:
1. Gold and silver possess an odor for them.
2. Not all of us possess earthshaking talent.
3. He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
4. Danny could be very jealous and possessive about me.
5. She saw Maud Dyer peer at Erik with moist possessive eyes.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of POSSESSIVE
possessive
 n.  the case expressing ownership
 a.  having or showing a desire to control or dominate
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The sight of that happy possessive gesture had aroused in Scarlett all the jealous animosity which had slumbered during the months when she had thought Ashley probably dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  She saw Maud Dyer peer at Erik with moist possessive eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  And she loathed the domestic, the possessive; the maternal.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  The kingdom is upwards of three hundred leagues in diameter, and divided into thirty provinces; there the Fathers possess all, and the people nothing; it is a masterpiece of reason and justice.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
5  It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous aspects.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
6  Gross natures have this in common with naive natures, that they possess no transition state.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7  These words possess the mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
8  They possess nothing of their own, and they must not attach themselves to anything.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
9  The nuns here possess one privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
10  Nevertheless, whatever may be the contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this is it: disinterestedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
11  Gold and silver possess an odor for them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
12  The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
13  The wine-shops of the Faubourg Antoine, which have been more than once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess historical notoriety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
14  Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
15  We have happiness, we desire paradise; we possess paradise, we desire heaven.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  Danny could be very jealous and possessive about me.
2  He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
3  The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.
4  She pretends to various abilities she doesn't, in fact, possess.
5  Not all of us possess earthshaking talent.
6  The students possess the conviction that they can make a difference to their community.
7  Belgium was the first European country to possess a fully-fledged rail network.
8  In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.
9  Alphabetic systems possess an inventory of symbols, called an alphabet, to represent the individual phonemes.
10  He claimed to occupy a chair near the back door and possess one small holdall containing all his personal possessions.
11  While Gaiman does not possess much of a sophisticated literary skill, he nevertheless is an author to read for the interesting and amazing stories.
12  In very truth the saga is a prose epic, and marked by every quality an epic should possess.
13  The Declaration of Independence mentions the inalienable rights that all of us possess.
14  The most important thing which an enterprise should possess is the ability to believe in oneself.
15  The phone encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a complex mathematical algorithm that uses a code created by, and unique to, the phone's user — and that Apple says it will not possess.