Sentence examples for possessed because from inspiring English sources

He has been playing like a man possessed because he wants the Americans to redeem themselves for the humiliation of finishing last in 1998.

More scenes feature military soldiers being reunited with their families, and homes being possessed because families cannot pay mortgage.

Later, in I. M. Lewis' book Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession, we're given such messages as women and homosexual men are more likely to become possessed because they are weaker; thus, no credible report of shamanhood.

And it is time we don't possess, because there are only three previews.

For me, General Tilney in Northanger Abbey has more depth and humanity than he really possesses, because one feels that he is a first sketch of Sir Walter Elliot.

Where is the strength, and the peace that surpasses all understanding we claim to possess because of the cross?

(In other words, what new knowledge, skills, or attitude do you now possess because of the experience or situation?).

I am shaped by narratives of what gender is associated with my anatomy and what behaviors and traits I should possess because of that narrative of a gender.

Longevity is surely another quality that Tater Tots possess, because the 32-ounce bag I plucked from the frozen food cooler was emblazoned with the 60th anniversary announcement.

Following the Civil War, state courts, and, later, the Supreme Court, used the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process of Law Clause to safeguard both natural rights (rights individuals possess because they are rational, moral agents) and certain civil rights (rights that are necessary to protect individual freedom in political society).

They had acquired a hatrack, not because they possessed hats, but because it was a piece of furniture all but the very poor had.