Sentence examples for possessed them from inspiring English sources

What possessed them?

Whatever possessed them to cover Pink Floyd's 'Breathe', for instance?

Connolly, himself, possessed them; his more talented friend, George Orwell, did not.

Even before it possessed them, Britain's need for nuclear weapons was contentious.

Throughout Russia, vouchers were thought, by the workers who possessed them, to be practically worthless.

State inspectors have visited, demanding to see his wild boars out of concern that he possessed them illegally.

Sure, I've heard of poets who've claimed that demons, spirits, God, gods, etc., possessed them to write.

In a pointed jab, he added, "I have no idea what possessed them to reach that conclusion".

They both had children, though their distant friendship possessed them, as if their marriages&children were irrelevent.

It possesses them, or they are possessed by it.

They're not investments: I wanted to possess them.