Sentence examples for they were possessed from inspiring English sources

They acted as if they were possessed by the force of feelings beyond their control.

In their ecstasies they were "possessed by the gods" and able to fly outside their bodies.

I approach them all the same way, as if they were possessed by demons, and found that they accepted it, because there's something supernatural about it.

"You could say they were possessed, the way they went about it, so methodically, purposefully, calmly setting people ablaze, chopping people".

That in the preindustrial world they were possessed by devils and that once magnetism had been discovered their minds turned to the lodestone?

I got into a lot of trouble at school because the heathen did not understand they were possessed by the Devil.

It possesses them, or they are possessed by it.

They are possessed of an innate ability to inspire.

"They are possessed by Satan," the Pastor chanted.

Some of these children have a disability but pastors are saying they are possessed," she said.

They are possessed of the ultimate interest and it is they whom we must give primary consideration.