Sentence examples for owning stuff from inspiring English sources

Sure, Ms. Grimm loved owning stuff, and spent perhaps unwisely.

"My dad's not big on owning stuff anymore," I told Rita.

But that evening, still touched with a neophyte's evangelical zeal, I read aloud from Nick Rosen's book: 'We are entering a post-consumer era where owning stuff and being busy and working too hard will seem unfashionable.' 'I didn't understand a word of that,' says Tomas.

Instead of being a proxy capitalist and owning stuff through stocks and investment intermediaries, why not become a real capitalist and invest in yourself?

By looking ahead to those behavior adjustments — not just "millennials don't like owning stuff," but deeper, wider swaths of pan-generational change — we should be foreseeing the road ahead in a far more complex manner than is the norm today.

Humanity turned monogamy into the institution of marriage when owning stuff defined status, and the sexual partner defined who inherited it.

"People are going to own stuff.

You can't own stuff.

We moved again the summer after sixth grade, all we owned stuffed in duffel bags on a Greyhound bus.

It starts with us owning our stuff.

We carried our own stuff.