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
In his will, George Washington offered freedom to his own human chattels upon the death of his wife, Martha.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
My Pure Land is just the latest in a string of feminist new westerns – repurposing a form in which women were once silent chattels.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2017
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
