Examples of “property” in a Sentence

noun Something that a person or organization owns, especially land, buildings, or possessions.

• They bought a small property on the edge of town.
• All of the equipment is company property.
• The tenant caused some damage to the landlord's property during the move.

noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to something, such as a material or a chemical.

• One property of rubber is its elasticity.
• Water has the property of expanding slightly when it freezes.
• Each metal has its own properties, such as hardness and how well it conducts heat.

noun (computing) A named setting or attribute belonging to an object or component, which can often be read or changed.

• You can set the "color" property of the button in the design panel.
• Set the width property to a larger value to make the box wider.
• The developer read the text property to check what the label displayed.