Sentence examples for were properties from inspiring English sources
noun
Something that is owned.
- Leave those books alone! They are my property.
There were properties listed with a price range as opposed to a set price.
Lauber confirmed that among financial assets seized since 27 May were properties including apartments in the Swiss Alps and that 121 suspicious banking transactions are under investigation.
In Maori the country's full name, Aotearoa, is a lovely kind of oxymoron: it translates as "the land of the long white cloud", as if clouds were properties of the earth, or served in some strange way to invoke it.
"The other two were properties living with landlords, where I was not allowed to have any visitors unless I paid them £10 every time someone came to see me," she said.
Under contract to MGM, she worked hard, was generally liked, and although not a diva was scrupulous about fighting for her rights in an era when actors and actresses were "properties" rather than people.
If nonetheless they were properties of the experience, perception would be massively deceptive.
We were not people – we were property.
And Naomi and Ruth were property.
They were property themselves.
As if they were property or invisible.
