Sentence examples for essential possession from inspiring English sources

Now, when he visits his dispatcher, his most essential possession can generally be stored somewhere safe and legal.

His vision and coördination were so poor that he didn't get a driver's license, an essential possession for any high-school male in mid-Missouri, and he had to have classmates chauffeur him around town.

That's how guys often looked to the hopeful secretaries in the 1950s Manhattan of Jaffe's best-selling novel of a half-century ago: flat, unbending, interchangeable and, alas, an essential possession if you wanted to keep up with the other girls.

He simply is always causally responsible for these properties and his essential possession of them.

I have recently realized that my US passport might be my most essential possession -- especially as I get older and become more convinced that the only reason to earn a paycheck is to be able to buy plane tickets.

Or, she added, that there wouldn't be room for their essential possessions.

They take what food remains from the house, as well as their most essential possessions; they don't know where they're going.

In "Faces of Made in China," a series of typological portraits looking at workers inside six Chinese factories, the photographer Lucas Schifres seeks to consider the otherwise anonymous people who produce our essential possessions by looking directly into their eyes.

Though the sisters are forbidden to leave their colonial family homestead -- represented as a state of mind, tenuously anchored by a few essential possessions, in Robert Brill's minimal set -- Mr. Cruz has provided Maria Celia (Ms. Sevan), a celebrated fiction writer, and the younger Sofia (Ms. Rubin-Vega), a pianist, with suitors who come to visit.

One of those globes rests on a shelf in the closet, along with a few essential possessions: a small stack of biographies (Greta Garbo, Oscar Levant), the only books Berman read; some immaculate lingerie and house linen; a packet of handwritten letters from her sister; and a battered piece of faux Louis Vuitton luggage — a jewelry travel case that alludes, perhaps, to her displacements.

*Adjusted for age and sex of guardians and type of location (Peri-urban vs. Rural) for household food insecurity and essential material possessions.