possessiveness

Example Sentences

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Quickly, Karsh’s love turns to possessiveness, and everyone around him becomes a suspect.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

When an aspect of your culture becomes ubiquitous in the mainstream, no matter who you are, I think it’s natural to feel a little possessiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

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

Suspicion and fear: possessiveness and greed: resentment for ancestral wrong: all these seemed to be a part of it.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White