The station was large enough to actually possess real clouds.

The step gave him a stature which he did not actually possess.

She apparently gave the big man credit for more fighting ability than he actually possessed.

Literary theorists may long for, but have never actually possessed, such power and influence.

What has changed is the expectation that artists actually possess the skills to produce their own work.

He wasn't at all sure that he actually still possessed it.

Tradition affords him more power and authority than he actually possessed.

"I didn't know you Englishmen actually possessed such a sense of humor."

American officials all but rule out the possibility that Iraq, as it has often declared, actually possesses no weapons of this kind.

The female body type that most frequently shows up in advertising as "ideal" is actually only possessed by 5 percent of American women.