How to Use belong in a Sentence

belong

verb
  • She was here for 15 years, but she never really belonged.
  • Wipe out the drawer and put the things that belong there back.
    — Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 9 May 2023
  • That alone should put the Big 12 on notice: The Bearcats belong.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The crying wolf call of great tits belongs in this box of tricks.
    — Anders Brodin, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • When the whole team is healthy, Kulich still belongs on the roster and in the lineup.
    — Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
  • These spiky blooms belong at the back of your border in full sun.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The next shortest odds belong to Aaron Rodgers (+1000).
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But the 17-year-old doesn’t think police belong in schools.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • But the movie is too steeped in Goldin’s life and art to belong to the Sacklers, or to the opioid crisis.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2022
  • And six slots out of that 10, or 60% of the list, belong to just two shows: Stranger Things and Manifest.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Blazy, with his fount of ideas, belongs firmly in the future camp.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The ideology holds that a home belongs first to guests and God, and then to the owner.
    — Naomi Tomky, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2023
  • Many more voices and faces belong to people on the street.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • But this begs the question, does oil belong on or in pizza?
    — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • Courtesy of Bushtops The rule for spotting game in the bush is to look for what doesn’t belong.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The final share of blame might even belong to the system itself.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • To belong to a movie that is, for sure, one of the best Coen Brothers movies ever.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • And where do many young people turn to feel that sense of belonging?
    — Alex Miller, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • If the item isn’t labeled a 1, 2 or 5, Aldridge said, it won’t be recycled and belongs in the black bin.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But let the locals also feel the same sense of belonging.
    — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Kids These Days What happens when someone who doesn’t belong on the field jumps over the guardrail?
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 13 July 2024
  • The views expressed in the commentary belong to the author.
    — Michael Thaddeus, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • That’s because those pants belong there, at least for now.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The most famous pair of legs in fashion don’t belong to a model.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
  • There are the other singers on the choir team, various rivals and members of the church the choir belongs to.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Advertisement Four of the teams among the 12 did not belong there.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • This season, there’s no such guessing where the Stars belong in the standings.
    — Dallas News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • But for many people, the feeling is the same: Here is somebody who doesn’t belong.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The color doesn’t belong, but nothing really does, so everything—and everyone—is welcome.
    — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The task requires figuring out which colors belong in which boxes based on their position: black for corners, magenta for the middle, and directional colors (red for up, blue for down, green for right, and yellow for left) for the remaining boxes.
    — Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025

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