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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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181. Fortunately for us all, those skills are possessed to a considerable degree by police officers of every rank.
182. They have already lost a great deal of the autonomy and self-determination they possessed under the Stormont regime.
183. The outer provinces still possessed immense stretches where atomic power had not yet been re-introduced.
184. She had genuinely possessed no idea of how long servants worked, and for how little.
185. All previous elections had possessed a ritual quality with the outcome determined in advance by religious demography.
186. Young Joe possessed minimal athletic ability and was developing into an overweight child.
187. He's apparently unbelievable at doing the possessed Curtis dance, where the quietest of men would suddenly explode into compressed derangement.
188. If he were possessed by devils, Kate thought, it would be a simple explanation.
189. Perhaps they are at their most dangerous when possessed by some one with the gift of persuasive speech and power and influence.
190. He was filled with sudden admiration for a professionalism which he had not suspected she possessed.
191. Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessedDale Carnegie 
192. He had said that Joe possessed a natural talent for political news and should seek opportunities in that direction.
193. Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue.
194. It is not, as some people still believe, an almost magical power possessed by just a few.
195. She can not abjure, give up, control the force by which she is possessed.
196. Thus the fact that the tsar possessed a large army did not mean that he could risk significant external commitments.
197. By July 1989 it was estimated that the country possessed foreign exchange sufficient only to cover three weeks' worth of imports.
198. The feeling that Hawaii had been unlawfully possessed by the United States was still a potent force.
199. It was a changing group of opinionated, articulate people possessed of varying degrees of talent and of variable character.
200. He was a grim man, consumed with a sense of mission and possessed of an enormous amount of energy.
201. On finding Tamara gone he went to his father, who dwelt in the heart of Dartmoor and also possessed magical powers.
202. I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world.
203. They had a reputation as healers,(http://sentencedict.com/possessed.html) good lords who possessed the secrets of both heaven and earth.
204. On the one hand, they possessed no deep appreciation for what Latin civilization was, or how it functioned.
205. They do not, however, seem to have possessed any programme for the betterment of lay society.
206. The tiles which she painted possessed great potential in kitchen design, he had informed her.
207. Why the Story was Remembered A poor man believed himself to be possessed by many devils.
208. Terry offered a bike to his son if only he would use the good brain he undoubtedly possessed.
209. Nor could the G.L.C. defend its policy on the basis that it possessed a mandate to lower fares.
210. In 1945 Rhee possessed moral authority and commanded deep respect, even among those antagonistic to his conservatism.
More similar words: dispossessedpossesspossessorpossessiondispossesspossessivepossessivelyprepossessingobsessedposseengrossedassesstressesstar-crossedassessorreassessdressedassessmentstressedprocessedoppressedimpressedcompressedexpresseddepressedsuppressedaddresseddistressedhard-pressedmasses
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