Sentence examples for feeling proprietary from inspiring English sources

The next morning, already feeling proprietary, I walked the grounds, looking into the three stone barns and their contents: broken wine presses, huge wine barrels, stone vats and run-off channels, various old farming implements -- all from a distant past, since there were no vineyards remaining in the immediate area.

Other Fox executives who "were feeling too proprietary," as Howard Squadron phrases it, also have gone.

There were enough of them so the place didn't feel like a haunted house -- but not so many that a peacefully proprietary feeling couldn't be indulged.

A warm, proprietary feeling bloomed inside her.

He had an understandable proprietary feeling about the murder.

The neighborhood has a proprietary feeling about P.S. 108, and helps keep it in good shape.

That engendered a proprietary feeling among patrons and also fueled a clublike atmosphere where anything could — and often did — happen.

It's a proprietary feeling, too, when you find a place — or a song, or a painting, or a sandwich — that you love, that moves you.

Mr. Cohn, who helped start the preserve, has a proprietary feeling about all the Champlain wrecks, which he says represent "the richest collection of wooden ships in North America".

I can't help feeling a little proprietary about "Rent," because of the inadvertent role I played at the end of Larson's life.

P. J. Fouche, a professional hunter who manages a hunting concession in a game-management area outside the park, said that Mark Owens developed a proprietary feeling about the park's wildlife.