chattels

Example Sentences

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Slave society also linked liberty to the power of command, for true freemen gave orders while chattels followed them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Yes, I know, the marital bargain has changed: women are no longer chattels.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2018

Excluded in the sale but available for separate purchase were the household furniture, machinery and "the chattels within the house."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015

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

Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson