Sentence examples for material possession from inspiring English sources

"material possession" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to items of value that one owns, such as a house or a car. For example: "John was very attached to his material possessions and rarely gave them away."

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For a Material Possession(s): The thing(s) that you suspect may be possessed need to be analyzed.

And the benefits of material possession and wealth overrides other narratives like bindweed.

That working class, black parents can get their priorities wrong in terms of material possession is a distinctly human trait not confined to our community.

And though there was nothing easy about Fitzgerald's form of mortification, her snobbery about money and material possession was in part premised on that most English of possessions: the invisible superiority of her class.

If her mother had had a personal life, it was not a material possession to be disposed of like garments taken on and off; a personal life can't be "left to" a daughter, like a beneficiary in a will.

"Above all, you bear the sad memory of what you were forced to leave behind, not just material possession, but your freedom, the closeness of relatives, and the familiar surroundings and cultural traditions".

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Give up all material possessions?

He cared not for material possessions.

We like our material possessions to be material.

He even "came to love things, material possessions".

Accumulating material possessions, Creed insists, has no interest for him.

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