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Example sentences for "actual possession"

  • It is only through the Holy Spirit that Christ and His Holiness are day by day revealed and made ours in actual possession.

  • As the Spirit of Truth He is the Spirit of Holiness; the life of God, which is His Holiness, He brings to us as an actual possession.

  • To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies.

  • It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law.

  • To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.

  • How much of "the region afterwards known as New England" was this Colony "in actual possession of"?

  • We offer you a fair price for the only thing you can give us--actual possession; and we help you with your old grudge against the Harrisons.

  • On the other hand McKinstry and Harrison would each be able to arrange any compromise with the new title holders for the lands they possessed, or make over that "actual possession" for a consideration.

  • This then was merely a commercial privilege, not inconsistent with that territorial sovereignty, which, by the practice of nations, would attend upon the occupation or actual possession of lands hitherto vacant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actual possession" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual experience; actual experiment; actual fact; actual life; actual operation; actual play; actual possession; actual practice; actual service; actual settlers; actual warfare; adequate system; cubic metres; dined yesterday; doubt not; feet north; fruit juice; good price; great adventure; immeasurable prowess; longer extant; next summer; our knowledge; three sorts; under orders; utter stranger