6 sentences with 'possesses'
Example sentences and phrases with the word possesses and other words derived from it.
• « My wife, who possesses mechanical skills, has yet to master the intricacies of running a hotel shower without getting her hair soaked at the very moment she is preparing to attend a cocktail reception or the Vienna State Opera. »
• « The killer rapist's DNA was found to have characteristics that only two percent of the population possesses. »
• « Ololiuqui is the seed of a species of vine that possesses compounds similar to lysergic acid (LSD). »
• « The origin of the first cell has not yet been elucidated, a prodigy greater than the appearance of life itself, since once the cell has appeared, it already possesses the ability to self-replicate itself. Here too there is a missing link. »
• « In the search for greater precision, it is possible to define democracy as a system of government that possesses a number of attributes: »
• « The authority of a king is purely physical, and controls the actions of the subject without subduing his private will; but the majority possesses a power which is both physical and moral; it acts upon the will as well as the actions of men, and represses not only all strife, but all controversy. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America. »