"own" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The new company owned hundreds of factories, employed 168,000 workers and controlled six sizable railroad lines.
- He owned three cotton plantations and hundreds of slaves.
- I work for a school district that owns hundreds of MacBooks.
- Washington, who owned hundreds of slaves, wrote privately that he favored abolition, but never proposed it publicly.
- Some important headmen in Kandyan districts owned hundreds of animals which were spread over several villages.
- "Once, we owned hundreds of animals, but now we have only this one sheep and two goats."
- For breeders, a single owner may own hundreds or even thousands of animals.
- Jefferson himself was a prominent Virginia slave holder having owned hundreds of slaves.
- The company owned hundreds of properties around the city.
- The cathedral owns hundreds of medieval manuscripts, and 20,000 early printed books.
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