Used in a Sentence

possessed

How to use possessed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for possessed.

Editorial note

It's about a step removed from saying someone who denies Jesus Is Lord has been possessed by a demon. Or the same thing really.

Examples20
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of possessed gathered in one view.

adjective

influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed"

adjective

frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for possessed.

adjective

influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed"

adjective

frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"

Example sentences

1

It's about a step removed from saying someone who denies Jesus Is Lord has been possessed by a demon. Or the same thing really.

2

They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool."

3

It's about being possessed with the desire to be the best. And that is weird, by definition - only a small fraction of people have such dedication to one pursuit.

4

Are you possessed of information demonstrating intent on Samsung's part to confuse buyers?

5

As others have noted, it was wealth Americans never really possessed. The data point that I'd find most interesting is how much debt was accumulated on the back of that phony wealth.

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In subjects where I already knew a great deal, I still gained from learning the theory behind the practical knowledge I already possessed. I can't stress enough how much more well-rounded college makes a person.

7

Any users pretending to have had need for capital letters are just expressing their disgruntlement over losing something they felt they possessed. That doesn't mean we think users are stupid, just that they have no idea what they actually need or use.

8

The "Barbarians" among those folk were given advanced weapons, that America possessed, those weapons might be outdated, and America may have a upper hand, but that is only a matter of time. Sadly, this has became a chicken and egg problem.

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And in the last 67 years, America has specifically chosen to not use nuclear weapons of any sort, despite the radical military advantage that it has possessed for most of that time. Nukes in Vietnam would have ended that conflict very quickly.

10

Demons were very real as well – every Witness knows a few stories or has a friend of a friend that had a demon possessed item. I had reoccurring nightmares from the time I was a child onward that I was being attacked by demons, or that a family member was actually a demon waiting to kill me.

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Not every nuclear bomb in the future will necessarily be possessed by nations who are facing adversaries who can respond in kind to the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are very scary indeed, and we are very lucky to have made it decades since they have last been used in war.

12

Back when I worked on critical flight systems for Boeing, the pilot had the option of, via flipping circuit breakers, physically removing power from computers that had been possessed by skynet and were operating perversely. This is well known in airframe design.

13

People are possessed by the strange idea that you, mister content provider, own that content and have an inalienable right to control it any way you can get away with. But someday you will die, and your company will die, just like Geocities, Google Video, and the Library of Alexandria.

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When asking whether it is obvious, you are essentially asking whether the very semi-skilled form of art knowledge possessed by the patent examiner would have regarded this as a natural extension of the existing art deposited in the office. In other words, determining a patent comes down to searching the patents offices' own archive.

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It's again important to note that this is a child pornography case: possession of child pornography is a crime, so if the would-be defendant here provided a decryption key, this would be tantamount to him admitting that he possessed the hard drive and had access to the files within itthat alone would constitute a crime if the files were found to be child pornography. This is therefore what the court later refers to as an "implied factual statement" and the Fifth Amendment protects this.

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For anyone with the ability to put a capsule into orbit and to retrieve it, also possessed the ability to spy on the other party, safely launch and drop a nuclear warhead into the other party's major cities, and one-up the enemy in a show of technical prowess and strength - something that would persuade those on the fence to pick the right side if it were. That's what these programs were sadly all about and that's why they were ended once the high ground was decisively seized.

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Every episode I watched contained a man with the calm manner of Mr. Rogers guiding his watchers through the process of creating something, providing them constant reassurance that they possessed the ability to create art and that they weren't making mistakes but merely going through the process of creation. A quick trip over to reddit will reveal dozens, perhaps hundreds, of posts from people who have followed Bob Ross' methods and create a piece of art that brings them joy and satisfaction despite possibly a lifetime of doubting that they had the ability.

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Ultimately, Engels traces these phenomena to the recent development of exclusive male control of private property and the attendant desire to ensure that their inheritance is passed only to their own offspring: chastity and fidelity are rewarded, says Engels, because they guarantee exclusive access to the sexual and reproductive faculty of women possessed by men from the property-owning class. [1] We are, on even our worst days as a society, nowhere near a state of affairs in which that synopsis can swap the gendered pronouns and hold true.

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Any theory of color vision deficiency that attempts to reconstruct the color balances that van Gogh actually saw should take into account the hue/value/chroma of his paints such as they possessed when originally applied, and also consider that van Gogh intentionally adjusted his aesthetic to render color schemes in expectation of future pigment degradation, and that these adjustments cannot have been an exact science.

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, than is actually possessed. For example count the number of things named Wolfram in this most recent blog post, or count the hyperbolic adjectives and adverbs: amazing, whole different level, profoundly important, incredibly useful, breathtaking, exciting, spectacular, sophisticated, universally accessible, new kind of language, cover[ing] all forms of computation, by far the largest ever, immense, spectacularly productive, remarkable, immense, completely general and uniform, immense, cant-do-it-justice, immediately meaningful, absolutely practical, and spectacular, amazing, never imagined before, incredibly fertile, disorienting, uniquely converging, universal, incredibly powerful, instant, absurdly, seamless, dauntingly long, widely accessible, wonderful, exciting, with full semantic fidelity, instantly programmable, a kind of global brain, convenient, efficient, a new level of computation, our most important technology project yet, incredibly exciting.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use possessed in a sentence?

It's about a step removed from saying someone who denies Jesus Is Lord has been possessed by a demon. Or the same thing really.

What does possessed mean?

influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed"

What part of speech is possessed?

possessed is commonly used as adjective.