personal effects
privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual.
Origin of personal effects
1- Compare household effects.
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How to use personal effects in a sentence
They left angry and hurt, and when they were gone, Hitchcock came back supposedly to clear out his personal effects.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTpersonal effects as small as a boarding pass or passport showed no sign of fire.
MH17 Is the World’s First Open-Source Air Crash Investigation | Clive Irving | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe personal effects could include the Future Flight Captain hat the boy had been wearing at the time of his disappearance.
The NYPD Unearths the Etan Patz Missing-Child Case 33 Years Later | Michael Daly | April 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPeters was also there, packing up the personal effects of the dead man preparatory to vacating the apartment.
In the Onyx Lobby | Carolyn WellsRegulations provided that two officers must inventory his personal effects and those belonging to the Space Service.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall Garrett
They were first to give into her hands all their personal effects, which she would bury under the lodge.
Letters from the Alleghany Mountains | Charles LanmanSuffice it to say we come vested with authority to take possession of his personal effects.
Christopher and the Clockmakers | Sara Ware BassettHouse, horses, and most personal effects are destroyed; but if children are left, a little property is reserved for them.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 | Hubert Howe Bancroft
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