How to Use dispossess in a Sentence

dispossess

verb

• The land was settled by dispossessing the native people who lived here.
• Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Celta should have taken the lead in the 39th minute after Godin was dispossessed by Gomez on the edge of the box.
  — SI.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Canada went ahead in the 63rd minute after Scott Arfield dispossessed Michael Bradley on the edge of the center circle.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Their intent was not, however, to rise up and dispossess the rich.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• But Democrats seem determined to make sure the dispossessed don’t cross into their camp.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 June 2019
• As Bale received a ball in the box, Zimmerman attempted to dispossess him—and went through the back of his legs instead.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• Word quickly spread among the poor and dispossessed in Port-au-Prince and other urban areas about the potential to make a new start.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
• In Belém, the capital city at the mouth of the Amazon River, their promise of miracle cures drew legions of the poor and dispossessed.
  — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• After dispossessing South Korea near its own goal, Timo Werner is wide open on the back post.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• Since the 1940s, African American farmers have been dispossessed of their land with the help of government agencies.
  — Calvin Schermerhorn, Twin Cities, 27 June 2019
• By contrast, the Anarresti have been dispossessed by Urras—and by themselves.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• Lokomotiv should have found their second equaliser of the game in the 59th minute, but Eder took too long to get a shot away from inside the Atletico box and was dispossessed by Luis.
  — SI.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Otherwise, this is what the land looked like millennia ago when it was settled by the Esalen tribe, Big Sur’s first dispossessed people.
  — Josh Marcus, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2019
• Dunn started the sequence by dispossessing Danielle van de Donk.
  — Frank Dell’apa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• But just as United seemed to be rocking, Maguire had dispossessed Abraham to initiate a counter.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Once again, Valentin dispossessed Robinho, seemingly knocking the ball out of bounds.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 20 July 2019
• The Kakuma Refugee Camp, 80 miles from anywhere in northwest Kenya, is a world apart, a holding center for thousands dispossessed by war and conflict.
  — Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
• The jihadis shoot their propaganda across the internet in search of the Western world’s frightened and dispossessed.
  — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2017
• Yoav and Uri unwittingly reprise their mission in Gaza by helping to dispossess poor evictees.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• Cassettes Led Album Sales The resurgence follows the longer term rise of vinyl and the re-emergence of specialist record stores, once the weekend hang out of the cool kids and the culturally dispossessed.
  — Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who saw his people slaughtered, despoiled, and dispossessed before he himself was killed.
  — Marc-Olivier Bherer, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Those dispossessed included a swath of prewar Polish citizenry, among them many of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust or who fled Poland after the war.
  — Vanessa Gera, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• After all, the rich can share citizenship status with poor and working people and still dispossess them.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• Straight from kick-off they were dispossessed by Benzema who fed the ball through to Gareth Bale who made no mistake in slotting the ball past the keeper to double Madrid's lead just 30 seconds into the second half.
  — SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• The Palestinian national struggle has become the cause of the justice-seeking dispossessed throughout the world.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Once again, the White, Republican-run state government has gone out of its way to try to dispossess Jackson’s Black residents.
  — Derrick Johnson, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• Assam’s dispossessed now stare into the abyss of statelessness.
  — Joseph Allchin, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2020
• In the 1930s, when the process of dispossessing Native lands had largely been completed, the federal government began shutting down many of the schools.
  — Zach Levitt, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• But the rural Americans with the deepest roots, the Native ones, were very often violently dispossessed.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024