Sentence examples for own an object from inspiring English sources

After all, to borrow from a pawnbroker, you must first own an object of value.

TO do this, it helps to consider, first, the "endowment effect": once we own an object, we value it more.

After all, if you're the evening's big spender, you not only get to own an object you've just helped to make fantastically valuable, but your extravagance, with your name attached or not, also buys a mention in the news.

And, frankly, who wants to own an object of desire only to wrap it up in an ugly case.

But although Dr. Lattimer would usually strive to ensure provenance, she added, that was sometimes less important to him than simply owning an object.

Thus, the feelings of psychologically owning an object can lead to corresponding territorial behaviors.

If you're listing who owns an object, know where to put the apostrophe.

During the holidays, he said, it could be used as a vase or could stand on its own as an object on a table.

If not highly original, nearly everything he does is personal enough to look fresh and hold its own as an object.

In fact, all I own is an object for which the reader has vanished, or the media has corrupted, or the basement has flooded.

Granted, the work can take on a life of its own as an object of appreciation or criticism, but it always carries its reference to the artist, as the identity of the artist likewise cannot be separated from her work.