possessive
Example Sentences
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He just felt possessive over it at the moment.
From Literature
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On a surface level, I think Brontë created an archetype that has lived on — the brooding, possessive self-made man type.
From Los Angeles Times
"You can have them both, I am not possessive. And their sisters."
From BBC
With her husband so frequently absent, child-rearing fell almost entirely to Frances, who proved a loving but possessive mother.
Most notably, there’s an attempt to mirror Latin grammar by omitting articles and possessive pronouns: “We stray from point.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.