Example Sentences

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Lynch pointed to rifles being used to shoot coyotes that are attacking sheep, but more important, he said, is possessing a gun for criminal deterrence.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

One change that’s drawn outsized attention is a reduction in the maximum penalty for being a “felon in possession”—that is, possessing a gun when you have a prior felony conviction.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2023

In comments published by state media Sunday, Kim called the Hwasong-17 “the world’s strongest strategic weapon” and said his country’s ultimate goal is possessing “the world’s most powerful strategic force.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022

England has 12 shots to Tunisia’s 4 and is possessing the ball 60 percent of the time.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2018

Pity it is, possessing, as they do, whatever can contribute to the felicity of a people in a state of peace, that war should be indispensable in order to render their idea of happiness complete.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 488, May 7, 1831 by Various