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

According to Sure, Porter warned him about Combs, advising Sure to stay out of Quincy’s life because of Combs’ alleged possessiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025

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

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2022

In contrast to the spirit of cooperation required for a successful recovery effort, Collar wrote in 1992, “ownership is a matter of jealousy, prestige and possessiveness that is fundamentally different in psychological origin.”

From Science Magazine • Jun. 8, 2022

She had some of her Aunt Evy’s talent for mimicking, some of Ruthie Nolan’s possessiveness.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith