chattels
Example Sentences
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For the first two decades, the firm specialised in managing probate house clearances, cessation of business asset disposals and private chattels.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
As Union troops advanced and slavery crumbled, planters usually asked their former chattels to remain at work, promising them wages at harvest time.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Whatever tragedy befell them, Atlantic creoles did not arrive in the New World as deracinated chattels stripped of their past and without resources to meet the future.
From Slate ● May 18, 2015
He gives us, if only incidentally, the British high command's life-wasting incompetence in Norway, France and Crete, which reduced these men to chattels of the enemy.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2012
The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
