How to Use dispossess in a Sentence

dispossess

verb
  • The land was settled by dispossessing the native people who lived here.
  • Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • Their intent was not, however, to rise up and dispossess the rich.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • He was tackled and dispossessed with the ball on a trajectory to the goal.
    — Monica Alba, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • But Democrats seem determined to make sure the dispossessed don’t cross into their camp.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 June 2019
  • The second one saw Moreno dispossess Salah and drive forward.
    — Andy Jones, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The cry is always I have been dispossessed of what belongs to me, my house, the food, foodstuff, the land.
    — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Dunn started the sequence by dispossessing Danielle van de Donk.
    — Frank Dell’apa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
  • Assam’s dispossessed now stare into the abyss of statelessness.
    — Joseph Allchin, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Celta should have taken the lead in the 39th minute after Godin was dispossessed by Gomez on the edge of the box.
    — SI.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Indigenous and colonized people paid the price, dispossessed of their lands.
    — Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • After all, the rich can share citizenship status with poor and working people and still dispossess them.
    — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Everton’s goalkeeper took a heavy first touch, and Son dispossessed him and tapped the ball into an empty net.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 24 Aug. 2024
  • By contrast, the Anarresti have been dispossessed by Urras—and by themselves.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Once again, Valentin dispossessed Robinho, seemingly knocking the ball out of bounds.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 20 July 2019
  • Yoav and Uri unwittingly reprise their mission in Gaza by helping to dispossess poor evictees.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • He was not dispossessed at all in the match and was generally a menace to SKC’s players.
    — Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
  • As Bale received a ball in the box, Zimmerman attempted to dispossess him—and went through the back of his legs instead.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Under apartheid, non-White South Africans were forcibly dispossessed from their lands for the benefit of Whites.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Word quickly spread among the poor and dispossessed in Port-au-Prince and other urban areas about the potential to make a new start.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
  • But just as United seemed to be rocking, Maguire had dispossessed Abraham to initiate a counter.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • After dispossessing South Korea near its own goal, Timo Werner is wide open on the back post.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • Unable to punch up, the recently dispossessed focused on the vulnerable target of the lower-caste witch.
    — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Mandi was in control of the ball, going nowhere fast, and there was little prospect of dispossessing him from Messi’s position.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Fernandez dispossessed Mikkel Damsgaard in midfield and Chelsea attacked at speed down the right.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The jihadis shoot their propaganda across the internet in search of the Western world’s frightened and dispossessed.
    — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2017
  • As with the enclosures in England and Scotland, villagers were uprooted and dispossessed to make way for sheep and cattle.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There was a pirouette and backheel flick in the 38th minute, which did not lead to much, and a 67th-minute dribble inside off the left flank that only saw him get dispossessed.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 8 May 2025
  • The Palestinian national struggle has become the cause of the justice-seeking dispossessed throughout the world.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Canada went ahead in the 63rd minute after Scott Arfield dispossessed Michael Bradley on the edge of the center circle.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2019

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