How to Use possessive in a Sentence

possessive

adjective

• If you marry him, he is only going to become even more jealous and possessive than he is now.
• Your more possessive side could emerge with a power play.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• All this means our jealous and possessive sides will be showing up in full force.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• Of the clientele, Teeth (James Frecheville) is polite but possessive.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• Harpster is at once fiercely proud of his program and at the same time possessive of the data behind it.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• DiFranco even brings out the protective and possessive In the media.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• Daisy is a 5-year-old German Shepherd who is very possessive of my mother.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2019
• But the running back un-retired to come back with his hometown Oakland Raiders, which is the type of thing that could rub some overly possessive fans wrong.
  — Adi Joseph, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2017
• Don’t be surprised if a loved one is a bit jealous or seems more possessive than usual this weekend.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2020
• A lot of writers are really possessive about their own project.
  — Yohana Desta, vanityfair.com, 12 May 2017
• Winona is lonely, paranoid, possessive, and full of clawing need.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
• Angela could be highly possessive and extremely volatile if any of the Daddy’s Girls failed to live up to her requirements, Chae says.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2021
• The bird reportedly lives in a pond near the ninth hole of the course and is infamous among local golfers for being aggressively possessive of the area.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2021
• Langella!), groovy sixties hairdos, and a plot twist that revolves around the use of possessive pronouns.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
• Possessive males trying to pass on their genes would prefer that females use their sperm—and only their sperm—to fertilize their egg clutch.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• Dwan, who had opened her eponymous gallery two years before, had gotten used to this behavior from local artists, who were possessive of their small art scene.
  — Catherine Wagley, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2022
• But what no one has ever located is what makes so many people feel possessive not just of the stories, but also of their connection to the writer.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Your daughter seems to be more possessive than protective.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 May 2021
• Armand was possessive of anyone who was involved in the family.
  — Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
• Ukacierra loves the feud with a possessive madness, fears for its survival, and looks upon the incursions of the contemporary world with hatred.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• Or will the nation that first arrives at AGI be possessive of it, becoming drunk with abject power and going power mad?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• That has made people more possessive about their work, the people said, which has meant less collaborating with co-workers.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Wyatt sees this and spends basically the whole episode being jealous and possessive.
  — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
• An early possessive shift by the Ducks ended with Getzlaf snapping another wrist shot past Talbot to start the comeback.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 3 May 2017
• Four years after vanquishing the Demon Nun and the evil, possessive entity Valak, things get hellishly twisted once again, this time at a boarding school in France.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• Four years after vanquishing the Demon Nun and the evil, possessive entity Valak, things get hellishly twisted once again, this time at a boarding school in France.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• To some, the character is a troubling figure whose possessive stalking of Christine is abusive.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
• Jacob is being very possessive about the baby, whose name is Renesmee(!).
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
• In the final image, a composite, Dallesandro appears naked and under Morrissey’s possessive hand, at the left edge of the mural, and also clothed and close at Warhol’s side, on the right.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• But are the ghosts of Quint and Miss Jessel anything more than figments of the governess’s overheated, heartsick and—yes—possessive imagination?
  — John Banville, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024