Word Finder - belong

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To have its proper place.

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Where does this document belong?

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(followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.

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That house belongs to me.

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(followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.

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(followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol \in means belongs to.

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Suppose x belongs to \mathbb{R}... (— written: x \in \mathbb{R})

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To be deserved by.

The baby didn't belong to Joseph.

I want to go to a place where I can settle with my family and feel we truly belong to the community.

The horses belong to you?

She didn't belong in the wilderness.

I belong to the province of Smolensk.

You belong to me.

He doesn't belong in either world.

They might belong to neighbors.

Frankly, I could care less who your bones belong to.

He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmutz that day, but the appearance of the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world.

She thought only of one thing, her sorrow, which, after the break caused by cares for the present, seemed already to belong to the past.

I don't belong there.

This is my life, and I belong to you.

You belong at my side, Jenn, just like I belong at yours.

I think this is the loveliest country in the world; but not being fairies Jim and I feel we ought to be where we belong--and that's at the ranch.

Dusty looked around them, gaze settling on the only car on the streets that didn't belong to him and wasn't on blocks.

I know this is hard on you, but you'll soon see where you belong in this mess.

Do you suppose they belong to that woman?

They belong to the rich man who lives in the big white house there among the trees.

Unnerved by the idea of being somewhere she clearly didn't belong, she opened drawers until she found a pair of shears.

She couldn't explain the sense that she didn't belong despite the pictures of her and Jonny on the walls and all her things sprinkled around the room.

You were never meant to belong to Gabriel.

She didn't seem to belong here, way too classy.

The insects belong to the family Elateridae, whose characters are described under Coleoptera.

Indeed all the extant writings by which he has earned his place as a poet and translator belong to this period.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with harness that does not belong to it.

You belong to the gentry? he concluded with a shade of inquiry in his tone.

She didn't belong in the human world anymore, and yet, she couldn't just dump it.

I want you to accept that you belong here, and I want to hear the words.

How terrible it must be to hunger for things that belong to someone else – especially when one of those things is your own daughter.

It doesn't matter what I feel, Rhyn, when I know I don't belong in this world or here with you, and I know without a doubt I won't survive, even if you find some place on another planet to stash me!

The last time I saw the deer up here, I found a track big enough to belong to Brutus – only it didn't look like his tracks.

You belong with us.

This treasure does not belong to me, for I bought only the ground; but when I offered it to my neighbor he refused it.

This is where you belong.

If your bones belong to someone who impregnated a young girl years ago, why do you care now?

He was nice enough to say I didn't belong locked up but this was Fitzgerald's jurisdiction and he couldn't do nothing about it.

Deidre held no warmth at all for Darkyn, but she could understand that the girl didn't belong in this mess.

We belong to different camps, but that does not prevent my esteeming her as she deserves.

If they don't belong to Josh Mulligan, they could be years older than the 1960's.

About 42% of the forests belong to the state and about 33% to public bodies and institutions, leaving only 25% for private owners.

The lakes of Bolsena (Vulsiniensis), of Bracciano (Sabatinus), of Vico (Ciminus), of Albano (Albanus), of Nemi (Nemorensis), and other smaller lakes belong to this district; while between its south-west extremity and Monte Circello the Pontine Marshes form a broad strip of alluvial soil infested by malaria.

All members that belong to the same category are sitting together.

It is singular that only the first three of them belong to the order Passeriformes, a proportion which is not maintained in any other tropical region.

The prince's house did not belong to what is known as fashionable society, but his little circle--though not much talked about in town-- was one it was more flattering to be received in than any other.

You will know before the week is out where you belong.

She wasn't the kind of woman who would ever belong in his world.

The remains of the amphitheatre are scanty; many of its stones have gone to build the city wall, which must, therefore, at the earliest belong to the end of the classical period.

Many bones formerly referred to birds have since proved to belong to Pterodactyls, e.g.

Its most distinctive characteristic is the presence of the birds of paradise, which are almost peculiar to it; for, granting that the bower-birds, Chlamydodera and others, of Australia, belong to the same family, they are far less highly specialized than the beautiful and extraordinary forms which are found, within very restricted limits, in the various islands of the subregion.