possessiveness

Example Sentences

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“I had written a book on writing once …” How did professional jealousy, competitiveness, possessiveness, or, on the brighter side, tenderness, collaborative spirit and generosity play out as you wrote a writing book together?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

For what it's worth, Harry pledges to let go of possessiveness.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023

Yearning, possessiveness, jealousy, deception, self-torture, the impossibility of truly knowing another person — these turn out to be the unhappy and recurrent elements of Proustian love.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

Viewers accused Ms. Bond of selling out and expressed a startling degree of possessiveness over her life.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2022

He touches her shoulder with a possessiveness in his eyes that I don’t like.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir