chattels
Example Sentences
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For the first two decades, the firm specialised in managing probate house clearances, cessation of business asset disposals and private chattels.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Among the chattels were two desks, one his, one hers, extras from a summer house they let go.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
Slave society also linked liberty to the power of command, for true freemen gave orders while chattels followed them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Whatever tragedy befell them, Atlantic creoles did not arrive in the New World as deracinated chattels stripped of their past and without resources to meet the future.
From Slate ● May 18, 2015
On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
