Example Sentences

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One wonders if that’s going to change, but I kind of feel a little proprietorial about that relationship.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

In Melbourne, they strut with a proprietorial air by the river.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

"Kids and mummies would grab a paintbrush and do a little corner," Swords says, although he admits he became "a little proprietorial" and regularly touched up their work.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2017

As you will see, each Schlub style icon has a proprietorial flourish of some description.

From Slate • May 27, 2016

In the dunes, close to where Turner and the corporals stood, men had already dug themselves holes from which they peeped out, proprietorial and smug.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan