personal items

Example Sentences

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It took up to a year to get their mother's personal items returned.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

It contained several personal items in addition to the cash, including her driver's licence, passport and DHS access badge, law enforcement sources told CBS at the time of the theft.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Wash your hands properly, choose paper towels over dryers, clean surfaces when needed, and keep personal items like your phone clean.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

His art collection, rare-book collection and other personal items were worth $2.8 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Angela carefully dug through the embroidery, personal items, and other paraphernalia in her tapestry bag and pulled out the newspaper folded to the Westing obituary.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin