Sentence examples for try to possess from inspiring English sources

His intent, he said, was to live more in the moment rather than try to possess it.

It's a discomfiting poem to remember on something so fast-moving – each small bright field whips by the window in a blur, even as I try to possess it and remain in it forever.

She can touch millions, remind them there are always men of money and power who try to possess a people or an event, but sometimes you have to take it back.

Some of those souls supported Lucifer and were not allowed to take bodies, but are left to try to possess the bodies of those who were on Christ's side and won the war.

Try to possess her, and she wafts away.

In her statement explaining why she was opposing the bipartisan background checks legislation, Heitkamp said, "I've been adamant from the very beginning of this conversation that the focus should be on mental health issues, full and accurate reporting into the NICS database and ensuring that we are prosecuting criminals in possession of or trying to possess firearms.

Its main idea is that everlasting game of trying to possess your own soul by the possession of something outside of it, thereby losing your own soul and the thing outside of it, too".

Why did you squander your precious life force trying to possess, control, interfere?

But later if anyone tried to possess me — oh boy, I was out of there.

And when Ms. Garfield kept trying to possess Ms. Lynch-John, this was surely smother love.

He shares in those realities rather than trying to possess them.