OWNERSHIP in a Sentence

Learn OWNERSHIP 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.

14 example sentences for OWNERSHIP, such as:

1. The house is under new ownership.
2. The ownership of the painting remains unclear.
3. The ownership of that house was transferred to somebody.
4. Her complete ownership of him was a continual joy to her.
5. Some economists strongly advocate the reform of government ownership of industry.

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 Meanings and Examples of OWNERSHIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ownership
 n.  having and controlling something, right or state of being an owner
Classic Sentence:
1  Her complete ownership of him was a continual joy to her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
2  Now and then he turned his eyes from the girl's face to that of her partner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a look of almost impudent ownership.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  The ownership of property has now become a religious question: as it has been since Jesus and St Francis.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  I would have given a good deal to have been able to see the notice-board intact, as it would, perhaps, have given some clue to the ownership of the house.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
Example Sentence:
1  We'd fade into someone at least one time in life,not for any result,company,ownership even love,just for meeting you in my most beautiful days.
2  In your life, there will at least one time that you forget yourself for someone, asking for no result, no company, no ownership nor love.
3  The house is under new ownership.
4  The regional parliament threw down a new challenge to the central authorities by passing a law allowing private ownership of businesses.
5  Some economists strongly advocate the reform of government ownership of industry.
6  The ownership of the painting remains unclear.
7  The ownership of that house was transferred to somebody.
8  In recent years many Maori have united against the New Zealand government, in protest at its efforts to clarify ownership of the country's extensive foreshore.
9  The group took on a mix of investigations and new probes into misrepresentations by securities originators and underwriters, failures to repurchase problematic loans and failures to transfer ownership of collateral into the securities in question.