How to Use personal effects in a Sentence

personal effects

plural noun

• Police found some of his personal effects near the 6200 block of Brasstown Road in Murphy.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 22 Feb. 2022
• In it were her kimono, a dress and some other personal effects.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
• Larry’s job is to go through the gear and personal effects of dead Marines before they are passed on to their families.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
• This has been a good year so far for recovery of personal effects and remains.
  — Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
• This would explain why Rebecca had his personal effects with her in the car after the fire.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2018
• The Nebraska lab that Brown works at has 80 tables, each full of remains and personal effects that can work to solve the mystery.
  — CBS News, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Nebraska lab that Brown works at has 80 tables, each full of remains and personal effects that can work to solve the mystery.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2023
• One of the few privileges of being a woman is the right to travel with all manner of personal effects.
  — Rebecca Malinsky and Lauren Mechling, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Half the canvas is littered with shoes heaped in a way that evokes the piles of personal effects found at concentration camps.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• Also found was a gym bag with personal effects and three cellphones.
  — Time, 24 Mar. 2018
• The Nebraska lab where Brown works has 80 tables, each full of remains and personal effects that can work to solve the mystery.
  — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The college is early in the process of determining what of the Wyeths’ personal effects will stay here, and what the foundation will claim.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Its pews are gone; in their place stand rows and rows of clothing and personal effects which belonged to the people massacred here 28 years ago.
  — CNN, 22 June 2022
• The remains and personal effects were in good condition, likely due to the glacier, Quintana said.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2021
• The book takes a look at the politics and the personal effects of global immigration.
  — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Prisoners were ordered to sort through the clothes and personal effects of soldiers who had been killed on the battlefield.
  — Nathan Solis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
• His new laptop had been stolen, along with an Apple Watch and other personal effects.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• The office keeps and catalogs personal effects found with the bodies, which also can help ID them.
  — Bob Ortega, CNN, 15 May 2018
• Only the bodies and personal effects such as backpacks have been removed from the building.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
• Rescuers found a large debris field of splintered wood and personal effects.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• Coastal Elites is a new HBO project that examines the personal effects of the pandemic through a series of celebrity vignettes.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The phone was stolen from a patient who died earlier in June and was not turned over with the patient's other personal effects, court documents show.
  — Kelsey Mo, azcentral, 2 July 2018
• Richardson also knows the very personal effects of Alzheimer's on a family.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 14 May 2018
• Torres goes on the attack, criticizing her for the lack of personal effects in her office.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• The pictures, and a few other personal effects that somehow managed to survive the collapse, were at least something.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2021
• Davis's personal effects still dot his desk, his art still lines the walls, his books—mostly covering football and the Brooklyn Dodgers—still occupy the shelves.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Within the church -- which today stands as a memorial to the violence of 28 years ago -- pews have been replaced with clothing and personal effects of the victims.
  — Max Foster, CNN, 24 June 2022
• Their personal effects were stored away by the time phones started buzzing with word of cancellations elsewhere.
  — USA Today, 11 Mar. 2021
• And what to do with the fact that Freda B. herself had no choice in the decision to photograph her suitcase, to have her personal effects displayed for everyone to see?
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2024
• But personal effects were not the magnet that drew members of families to the edge of the once-beautiful residential district.
  — Jerome Hansen, Jack Schermerhorn, Ralph Nelson and Ken McCormick, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024