chattels

Example Sentences

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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

Players in those days were essentially sporting chattels: disempowered, desperate to keep working, part of a culture that lingered on doggedly in English football.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2016

Excluded in the sale but available for separate purchase were the household furniture, machinery and "the chattels within the house."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015

The three surviving fiery fingers had not been sold yet, but they were chattels of the Lord of Light and could count on being bought back by some red temple.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin