dispossess

Example Sentences

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"Hold On to Me" from Cyprus traces the efforts of an 11-year-old tracking down her estranged father, while documentary "Kikuyu Land" from Kenya examines how powerful outside forces use local corruption to dispossess a people.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

They were visualizing that they would just dispossess them.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2024

The Manchester United defender required treatment on the pitch but was able to carry on, and soon proved he was fine with a masterful back-heeled tackle to dispossess Sesko.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2023

Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2023

An illness or a period of idleness does not suffice to dispossess you; a change of position, even considerable, does not put you to confusion.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart