Example Sentences

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The Seattle franchise has always clung possessively to the magic of 1995, so why not one more time, when they need it the most?

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

When it works, though, it’s an idiosyncratic tribute to friendship at its most possessively intense.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019

More dramatically, DH Lawrence tells us that Mrs Morel, the possessively loving mother of Sons and Lovers, had dreaded her baby “like a catastrophe” before he arrived.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2018

These, along with the possessively prefixed names of Ofglen, Ofwarren, Ofcharles, and the rest, stumble the reader like rocks unexpectedly cast onto a well-worn path.

From The New Yorker • May 28, 2017

I gathered my sisters and brothers, who clustered possessively around Jenny.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago