Sentence examples for be dispossessed from inspiring English sources
verb
To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
But it did not bother to consult the peasants who were to be dispossessed.
The film is, in part, about what it means to possess a city and to be dispossessed in London.
From the moment Bacary Sagna allowed himself to be dispossessed in the run-up to the first goal, they gave Liverpool every assistance.
On the hour England's best passing movement so far found Owen skipping past defenders in the penalty area only to be dispossessed by Collins's excellent covering tackle.
Mikel John Obi, the defensive midfielder, was guilty of a crass error in letting himself be dispossessed deep in his own half by Adam.
One authority burrows into another, as when the painter Cy Twombly is cited as quoting the poet John Crowe Ransom's assertion that "the image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness which ideas can never claim".
Alas, Shevchenko is dispossessed.
He also was dispossessed far too easily.
Some regular customers worry about being dispossessed.
The counter owners were dispossessed of their freedom.
As the whites moved in, the aborigines were dispossessed.
