Dispossession is an English word with synonyms like eviction or exorcism. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dispossession in a sentence
Dispossession meaning
- The act of dispossessing someone of something.
- The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
Synonyms of Dispossession
Using Dispossession
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of dispossessing someone of something. | The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
- Useful related words include: eviction, legal ouster, due process, exorcism.
- In the example corpus, dispossession often appears in combinations such as: dispossession of, land dispossession, and dispossession.
Context around Dispossession
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dispossession
- In this selection, "dispossession" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, land, mass, blockade and disease stand out and add context to how "dispossession" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blockade dispossession and the and against native dispossession from rural. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dispossession" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dispossession
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The dispossession of Native American land began with Columbus and continued for centuries. (13 words)
Dispossession of free labor from the land transformed the character of Rome’s army. (14 words)
This requirement could mean the land dispossession of more than half the displaced population. (14 words)
National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich based her new book on the life of her grandfather, who worked as a factory night watchman and took his fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Congress. (40 words)
If Trump’s challenge to the Great Election Heist of 2020 fails, or if he gives up and concedes, the only thing standing between the Historic American Nation and complete dispossession is a Republican-controlled Senate. (36 words)
This will include a truth-telling ceremony at Johnstone Park - an event that details Australia's history of colonial conflict and dispossession and acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures. (32 words)
If the concept that was used to justify land dispossession has been decried by the state and now repudiated by the church, where does that leave the land? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Abulhawa’s first event at Writer’s Week is scheduled for Tuesday morning, while El-Kurd will appear at another panel on Tuesday titled The Poetry of Dispossession.
If the concept that was used to justify land dispossession has been decried by the state and now repudiated by the church, where does that leave the land?
Indeed, there was before then a blockade, dispossession and the denial of food, water, and other vital necessities.
Indigenous names of nearby places — such as Doon Doon, Debil Debil, Juwulinpany, Purnululu and Mandangala — mark the long history of Indigenous land ownership and dispossession in the region.
The Curriculum also ‘dispossession, disease, and destruction of traditional society and culture’ as a key element of ‘European imperial expansion’.
The dispossession of Native American land began with Columbus and continued for centuries.
This will include a truth-telling ceremony at Johnstone Park - an event that details Australia's history of colonial conflict and dispossession and acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures.
And the Bajorans are introduced to us as a stateless people, a people who’ve been displaced by genocidal occupation and by land dispossession.
Dispossession of free labor from the land transformed the character of Rome’s army.
Farag discussed the Nakba, which is widely recognized as the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
In the latest issue of the Funambulist, dedicated entirely to “,” Guldana Salimjan wrote about how green development and Han settler colonialism legitimize the dispossession of Kazakh and other indigenous groups in Xinjiang.
It emphasises, in the author’s words, ‘the geographies of violence historically sedimented in landscapes of racialised dispossession’.
It makes no mention of the mass dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionist forces in 1948.
The coastal nations are counting on LNG to uplift their communities after 150 years of impoverishment and degraded social conditions unleashed by colonial policies and land dispossession.
If Trump’s challenge to the Great Election Heist of 2020 fails, or if he gives up and concedes, the only thing standing between the Historic American Nation and complete dispossession is a Republican-controlled Senate.
It has rationalised the mass dispossession of the Palestinians of their homeland through ethnic cleansing and illegal settlement-building.
Its purpose was partition, subjugation, and dispossession of what remained of the Ottoman lands at the close of the Great War.
National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich based her new book on the life of her grandfather, who worked as a factory night watchman and took his fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Congress.
The landscaping and renovation work at about half of them has been completed, the dispossession made absolute, the Palestinians blocked from even approaching the springs and their lands.
This requirement could mean the land dispossession of more than half the displaced population.
Common combinations with dispossession
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dispossession of 13×
- land dispossession 6×
- and dispossession 6×
- dispossession and 5×
- the dispossession 5×
- mass dispossession 3×
- of dispossession 2×
- dispossession in 2×
- forceful dispossession 2×