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Example sentences for "present possession"

  • How many kingdoms are there at present in the world, and how many more do we find in history, whose governors have no better foundation for their authority than that of present possession?

  • Their thought is, if we live "in hope of eternal life," then we have not really eternal life as a present possession; that we cannot hope for what we already have.

  • It is a present possession, something abiding in us now.

  • Passages in which eternal life is spoken of as a present possession, not a future expectation.

  • The germ, the principle of this life, exists in the heart of every believer; it is a present possession.

  • They are feelings which arise always in view of some good, real, or supposed, which has its adaptation to the wants of our nature, but which is not in present possession.

  • Desire is the feeling which arises in view of some good not in present possession, something agreeable, and to be obtained; it looks forward to that; its root and spring is that grand principle of our nature, the love of happiness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "present 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:
    colonial administration; democratic institutions; equal before the law; floured cloth; four different; house girl; little woman; present constituted; present everywhere; present himself; present myself; present purpose; present situation; present state; present time; present usage; present value; presented itself; presented myself; presenting himself; presents itself; speculative philosophy; suddenly stopped; thin sheet; towne called; you and