Pronunciation of the English word possessing.
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1. | As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. | |
2. | The pleasure of possessing is not in my estimation worth the trouble of acquiring. | |
3. | The suspects will face charges for importing and possessing drugs in a Sydney court. | |
4. | Dogs have all the good qualities of people without at the same time possessing their weaknesses. | |
5. | She, simple and unsuspecting, being totally unaware that all these gifts were but a lover's baits, accepted them willingly, and allowed it to be seen that she was greatly pleased with them; but her pleasure consisted less in possessing them than in being able to share them with Daphnis. | |
6. | Possessing money does not equate with wisdom. | |
7. | It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. | |
8. | Research in the park by Charles Walcott on trilobites in the late 1800s provided the foundation for his theory of the “Cambrian Explosion,” a term he used to describe the relatively sudden appearance of complex multi-cellular life possessing “hard parts” such as phosphatic or calcitic exoskeletons. | |
9. | Human beings—human children especially—seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched. | |
10. | Magnetars are called the strongest magnets in the universe, possessing a magnetic field that is 10 trillion times more powerful than a refrigerator door magnet. |