Sentence examples for possessed for from inspiring English sources

The virtual monopoly that Hindustan Motors possessed for decades, he said, was the car's undoing.

For Sampras, it became more than a tournament; it was a time share he possessed for two weeks every summer.

Recently, Jo Wood - self-styled environmentalist wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie - was asked by this newspaper what skills she possessed for a post-oil world.

In other words, the state police say, the chief failed the test, all for a modest wad of wet cash that he possessed for less than an hour.

But every now and then one or another of the performers will seem possessed, for just a second or two, by the animating spirit of that long-ago performance.

He adapted them, and then later showed where in the real world they led, if taken to their logical outcome by someone possessed, for a time, of absolute power.

"You just wonder what information they possess now that they didn't possess for the last 37 years.

You must nullify any plans you possess for the first week of the month of July".

And then the shred of sympathy I considered possessing for Dan Turner withered away.

They also show what sort of domestic items a well-to-do family would possess for entertaining.

There are few objects that it gives her so much pleasure to possess for a very short time.