household possessions
Example Sentences
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Surely you can tell the relatives that your granddaughter can’t use household possessions now.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022
"What did anyone gain by this?" he asked, teetering atop a jumble of household possessions — flowered mattresses, pink dish towels, cracked dinner plates — piled into a donkey-drawn cart.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2014
For my mother, the trove of household possessions we were able to bring with us, which included books, china, silverware, furniture, clothes and the like, were all important.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2013
Dammers has cited the sight of elderly women in Glasgow selling their household possessions on the street as the song's inspiration.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2011
During his few years' stay at Dumfries he had written over two hundred poems, songs, etc., many of them of the highest excellence, and most of them now household possessions.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel