PROPERTY in a Sentence

Learn PROPERTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
340 example sentences for PROPERTY, such as:
1. The value of property has slumped.
2. He has a property in the West Country.
3. The new property tax law won't directly affect us.
4. Don't touch those tools they are not your property.
5. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROPERTY
property
 n.  something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
 n.  any area set aside for a particular purpose
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The man owned the property, and the woman managed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  It was when Uncle Henry was giving her an account of her property that he broached the matter of her permanent residence in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  It was the bold way his eyes looked out of his swarthy face with a displeasing air of insolence, as if all women were his property to be enjoyed in his own good time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  That terrific scandal concerning the Charleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Here loomed up the dark bulk of the mock-orange hedge that marked the beginning of the MacIntosh property.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Somewhere amid these ruins, undistinguishable from the others, lay what remained of her own warehouse on the property Charles had left her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  She just didn't know where her farms and town property and money had gone but everything had slipped away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Everything except the house she was living in was gone and Pitty did not stop to think that the house had never been hers but was the joint property of Melanie and Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  The few letters she had had from him in connection with Charles' property showed that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  The old lawyer was battling valiantly to save the house and the one piece of downtown property where the warehouse had been, so Wade and Scarlett would have something left from the wreckage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  I hear she lost most of her property and Mr. Henry Hamilton's in bad shape himself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  She even talked of building a saloon on the property where her warehouse had been until Sherman burned it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Owning saloon property was a bad business, an unlucky business, almost as bad as renting to a house of prostitution.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  For some time there had been an agitation in Washington to confiscate all "Rebel property" to pay the United States' war debt and this agitation had kept Scarlett in a state of anguished apprehension.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  The club does not accept responsibility for loss of or damage to club members' personal property.
2  The new property tax law won't directly affect us.
3  You cannot legally take possession of the property until three weeks after the contract is signed.
4  The value of the property almost doubled during the interim period.
5  Don't touch those tools they are not your property.
6  You need to be pretty tough to succeed in the property world.
7  The value of property has slumped.
8  The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
9  He has a property in the West Country.
10  He repaired the fence he had broken and made his peace with the neighbor on whose property it stood.
11  In the final analysis, the only people who will benefit are property owners.
12  People owning leasehold homes will be given a new right to buy the freehold of their property.
13  This unusual property is what first alerted researchers to the fact that a core exists at the center of our earth.
14  Every citizen could buy shares in privatized state property.
15  Walter argues that the Convention guarantees compensation whenever a citizen is deprived of property.