How to Use personal effects in a Sentence

personal effects

plural noun

• Police found some of his personal effects near the 6200 block of Brasstown Road in Murphy.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 22 Feb. 2022
• In it were her kimono, a dress and some other personal effects.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
• Larry’s job is to go through the gear and personal effects of dead Marines before they are passed on to their families.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
• This has been a good year so far for recovery of personal effects and remains.
  — Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
• This would explain why Rebecca had his personal effects with her in the car after the fire.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2018
• The Nebraska lab that Brown works at has 80 tables, each full of remains and personal effects that can work to solve the mystery.
  — CBS News, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Nebraska lab that Brown works at has 80 tables, each full of remains and personal effects that can work to solve the mystery.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2023
• One of the few privileges of being a woman is the right to travel with all manner of personal effects.
  — Rebecca Malinsky and Lauren Mechling, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Half the canvas is littered with shoes heaped in a way that evokes the piles of personal effects found at concentration camps.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• Also found was a gym bag with personal effects and three cellphones.
  — Time, 24 Mar. 2018
• The Nebraska lab where Brown works has 80 tables, each full of remains and personal effects that can work to solve the mystery.
  — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The college is early in the process of determining what of the Wyeths’ personal effects will stay here, and what the foundation will claim.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Its pews are gone; in their place stand rows and rows of clothing and personal effects which belonged to the people massacred here 28 years ago.
  — CNN, 22 June 2022
• The remains and personal effects were in good condition, likely due to the glacier, Quintana said.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2021
• The book takes a look at the politics and the personal effects of global immigration.
  — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Prisoners were ordered to sort through the clothes and personal effects of soldiers who had been killed on the battlefield.
  — Nathan Solis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
• His new laptop had been stolen, along with an Apple Watch and other personal effects.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• The office keeps and catalogs personal effects found with the bodies, which also can help ID them.
  — Bob Ortega, CNN, 15 May 2018
• Only the bodies and personal effects such as backpacks have been removed from the building.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
• Rescuers found a large debris field of splintered wood and personal effects.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• Coastal Elites is a new HBO project that examines the personal effects of the pandemic through a series of celebrity vignettes.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• My question is: What does somebody do with these personal effects?
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2024
• The phone was stolen from a patient who died earlier in June and was not turned over with the patient's other personal effects, court documents show.
  — Kelsey Mo, azcentral, 2 July 2018
• Richardson also knows the very personal effects of Alzheimer's on a family.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 14 May 2018
• Torres goes on the attack, criticizing her for the lack of personal effects in her office.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• The pictures, and a few other personal effects that somehow managed to survive the collapse, were at least something.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2021
• Davis's personal effects still dot his desk, his art still lines the walls, his books—mostly covering football and the Brooklyn Dodgers—still occupy the shelves.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Within the church -- which today stands as a memorial to the violence of 28 years ago -- pews have been replaced with clothing and personal effects of the victims.
  — Max Foster, CNN, 24 June 2022
• Their personal effects were stored away by the time phones started buzzing with word of cancellations elsewhere.
  — USA Today, 11 Mar. 2021
• Late last month, Bahamian cops found Casey’s cellphone in the ocean and located her journal and other personal effects near the yoga retreat.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024