POSSESSED in a Sentence

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1. Not all of us possess earthshaking talent.
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. I can't imagine what possessed you to receive him in the first place.

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 Meanings and Examples of POSSESSED
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possessed
 a.  owning or mastering something; calm; collected; obsessed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He still liked her tremendously and respected her for her cool good breeding, her book learning and all the sterling qualities she possessed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The MacIntoshes were Scotch-Irish and Orangemen and, had they possessed all the saintly qualities of the Catholic calendar, this ancestry would have damned them forever in Gerald's eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand, stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being so unceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Having never possessed the courage to get himself into such a situation before, Charles was at a loss as to how to act.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  But for all his habit of making oracular statements and his slightly pompous manner, he was as kindly a man as the town possessed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Her love was still a young girl's adoration for a man she could not understand, a man who possessed all the qualities she did not own but which she admired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  I can't imagine what possessed you to receive him in the first place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  A feverish energy possessed her and would not let her be still; and at night, long after Scarlett had gone to bed, she could hear her walking the floor in the next room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  Muscles she did not know she possessed ached from her unaccustomed exertions of the night before and every movement brought sharp pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  The lace- trimmed petticoat beneath was the last garment she possessed that was pretty--and whole.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  It was the same intangible, unspectacular courage that all the Wilkeses possessed, a quality which Scarlett did not understand but to which she gave grudging tribute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Formerly he had the same combination of servility and impertinence which Wilkerson possessed but now, with Mr. Calvert and Raiford dead in the war and Cade sick, he had dropped all servility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Now, it was dear to her again and she wondered dully what madness had possessed her to hold it so lightly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  But, if he possessed those qualities, he'd probably have sense enough to feel the desperation that lurked just beneath her demurely fluttering eyelids.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
16  He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
17  The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.
18  She pretends to various abilities she doesn't, in fact, possess.
19  Not all of us possess earthshaking talent.
20  The students possess the conviction that they can make a difference to their community.
21  Belgium was the first European country to possess a fully-fledged rail network.
22  In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.
23  Alphabetic systems possess an inventory of symbols, called an alphabet, to represent the individual phonemes.
24  He claimed to occupy a chair near the back door and possess one small holdall containing all his personal possessions.
25  While Gaiman does not possess much of a sophisticated literary skill, he nevertheless is an author to read for the interesting and amazing stories.
26  In very truth the saga is a prose epic, and marked by every quality an epic should possess.
27  The Declaration of Independence mentions the inalienable rights that all of us possess.
28  The most important thing which an enterprise should possess is the ability to believe in oneself.
29  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.
30  Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.