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Sentence count:218+13Posted:2017-04-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: amokamuckberserkdemoniacdemoniacalobsessedpossessedSimilar words: dispossessedpossesspossessorpossessiondispossesspossessivepossessivelyprepossessingMeaning: [pə'zes]  adj. 1. influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion 2. in a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon. 
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91. Ceremonial and precedence notably lost most of the power to agitate rulers and governments which they had hitherto possessed.
92. He was a man possessed by greed, jealousy and lust.
93. By 1942, however, we possessed something no other country did: a huge surplus of hydroelectric power.
94. In short, nearly one in three possessed physical defects, a figure which took no account of dental problems or defective vision.
95. Each seemed possessed by a serene sorrow, and in a moment he learned why.
96. By now Dad was sixty-five, and what little lenience he may once have possessed had long since hardened into steely inflexibility.
97. He was born in Kent, to a Durham family which possessed its own coat of arms.
98. When they unplugged his dressings, fluid leapt from his flesh like some victorious spirit that had possessed him.
99. Thousands of young hopefuls were interviewed but none possessed the elusive qualities Selznick sought.
100. According to the report the country possessed four nuclear reactors.
101. Even when possessed of high ability he is often forced to settle for the position i on the catastrophe surface.
102. Sarah Stitt is possessed of the same huge eyes that she likes to paint in her huge-eyed portraits.
103. The quality of Ba or Bau was possessed by the king during his lifetime and refers to is power and renown.
104. Chamden performed like men possessed and even had the audacity to mount wave after wave of attacks.
105. She told him then, unable to help herself: he was possessed by devils.
106. Rehnquist was a great scholar who possessed a formidable intellect.
107. They were both attacked, one having a violent headache, the other being possessed as I now realised I had been.
108. Therese was huddled in nearly every garment she possessed, slacks, jumpers, her shabby grey coat and the multicoloured shawl.
109. The adolescent, in a sense, is possessed by his or her new-found powers of logical thought.
110. The correction official possessed almost absolute discretion over the parole decision.
111. It was also true, however, of the Western allies who also possessed important residual legal rights, especially in relation to Berlin.
112. The old mill provided an excellent location, as well as an important addition to the many tourist attractions that Bourton already possessed.
113. I really like him as a person because he cared and possessed other good qualities.sentencedict.com/possessed.html
114. Only certain people are capable of achieving it; those people possessed of magnetic centre, about which we have already spoken.
115. She had discovered that he possessed the eyesight of a cat.
116. Instead of praise, she was told she was possessed by the devil.
117. Maybe I lacked confidence - I didn't consider I possessed the degree of presence you need as the vital link-man.
118. They believe people can be possessed by demons, and that their role is to rid the world of such demons.
119. Like Clinton 12 years later, he possessed in volume what the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, lacked.
120. The Oder-Neisse episode demonstrated the potential that external and border issues possessed in calling into question the unification process.
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