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Example sentences for "repossessed"

Lexicographically close words:
reposition; repositories; repository; reposo; repossess; repot; repotted; repotting; repousse; reprecipitated
  1. It was now past midnight, and the throng on the stands was dispersing, while the long trails of red-lit boats scattered and faded beneath a sky repossessed by the tranquil splendour of the moon.

  2. It was now generally proclaimed throughout the North that the rebel chieftains had repossessed themselves of the reconstructed "State" governments and were making use of "State" powers to re-enslave the freedmen.

  3. Her old convictions repossessed her and she soared above human fears.

  4. He had lost sight of her, while being released and repossessed of his weapons.

  5. The idea possessed and repossessed him, though again and again he put it from him as horrible, or improbable, or both.

  6. In this year the English planters repossessed themselves of part of the inland of St. Christopher, from which they had been driven by the French.

  7. As soon as this resolution was executed Clinton repossessed himself of that post, repaired the fortifications, and placed a stronger garrison in it, after which he resumed his former situation at Philipsburg.

  8. Early in the spring a detachment from the garrison of Detroit repossessed and fortified a position nearly fifty miles south of that station, on the Miami, a river which empties into Lake Erie at its westernmost point.

  9. Weel, sir, I proffer restoration of the sum lent, and I demand to be repossessed of the jewels pledged with you.

  10. Repossessed of her own fortune by her husband's death, she was anxious to do justice to Lord Glenvarloch, by treating for the recovery of the mortgage.

  11. The native Irish swarmed back from the mountains and forests, and repossessed themselves of the lands from which they had been driven.

  12. The two rebel Burkes had got possession of the Galway portion, the O'Neills, O'Connors, and other chiefs had repossessed themselves of the North.

  13. You remember the parable of the woman who drove the evil spirit from her fleshly temple, and swept it clean, but failed to fill its place with another guest, and seven other devils came and repossessed it?

  14. A little coaxing, and the investiture of a red cap upon the chief's head, gradually repossessed them of their senses, and we were soon gabbling each in our own language, and therefore mutually unintelligible.

  15. They then made signs to Mr. Hunter to send his gun to the boat; this was of course refused, upon which one of them seized it, and it was only by wrenching it from his grasp that Mr. Hunter repossessed himself of it.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repossessed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.