personal effects
plural noun
: privately owned items (such as clothing and jewelry) normally worn or carried on the person
Examples of personal effects in a Sentence
put all of your personal effects in the bin so that they can be x-rayed
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Meanwhile, Raven's parents said, her personal effects, including her Virginia driver's license, which bore no donor designation, had not yet been turned over to the family, leaving them no meaningful way to challenge LifeNet's determination in real time.
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Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of posters, photographs, letters and personal effects will shed light on how Norma became Marilyn, and how Marilyn became a global phenomenon still in the spotlight more than 60 years after her death.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
What the press release didn’t say was that other than personal effects, the only actual biological evidence Erika and Zach recovered at the site was a right temporal lobe skull fragment about the size of a walnut, just one of 206 bones in the human body.
—Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
For instance, at one point, Ratner juxtaposes footage of workers removing the Biden family's personal effects from the White House on Inauguration Day with Melania putting her hat on.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of posters, photographs, letters and personal effects will shed light on how Norma became Marilyn, and how Marilyn became a global phenomenon still in the spotlight more than 60 years after her death.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
What the press release didn’t say was that other than personal effects, the only actual biological evidence Erika and Zach recovered at the site was a right temporal lobe skull fragment about the size of a walnut, just one of 206 bones in the human body.
—Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
For instance, at one point, Ratner juxtaposes footage of workers removing the Biden family's personal effects from the White House on Inauguration Day with Melania putting her hat on.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for personal effects
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“Personal effects.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20effects. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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