How to Use dispossessed in a Sentence

dispossessed

adjective

• The organization helps dispossessed people rebuild their lives.
• Don't emote for the dispossessed or write them a Christmas check.
  — Keith C. Burris, Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• However mighty the blue tide may seem to be, its alliance of the rich and the dispossessed may not prove sustainable.
  — Joel Kotkin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Driven out of their homes in Afghanistan, the dispossessed young Afghans thrived in the refugee camps, in part due to ties of ethnicity as Pashtuns.
  — Sohel Rana, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
• The dispossessed duke has retreated to the bountiful, timeless Forest of Arden, along with a merry band of courtiers.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 23 July 2017
• And these will be full of concern for the republic and those dispossessed Midwestern salt-of-the-earth taxpaying Americans, as if.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• Fred and Lu were not just a couple but an institution, the guardians of a waystation for dispossessed members of their community.
  — Marina Magloire, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2021
• The director has spent most of his career exploring the lives of dispossessed people, many of them Cabo Verdean immigrants, living on the margins of Lisbon.
  — Will Noah, The New York Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2020
• But for the world’s dispossessed, social media, smartphones and the internet can be fragile, even potentially dangerous tethers to the rest of the world.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• The lesson that Josef drew from his own experience was not about solidarity with the dispossessed, but about the overriding need to avoid the horror of exclusion.
  — Udi Greenberg, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• Years of struggles against crippling polio had equipped him with inner steel, empathy for the dispossessed and an unshakeable belief that even in the most desperate hour, better times are ahead.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• Meanwhile, the dispossessed Texan daughters — none of who have their acts even remotely together — are chagrined to find out their mother wants to give away their family homestead to strangers.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Many Bangladeshis worry that the Rohingya are perfect candidates to be radicalized — victims of anti-Muslim persecution who are now idle and dispossessed.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The Western bombing campaign left behind a lawless country, unimaginably over-armed and under-democratized, with a dispossessed population struggling to survive in conditions of civil war and violent chaos.
  — Phyllis Bennis, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024