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
• 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
• 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
• Many of them say the term injures their self-image and sense of belonging.
  — Daniel Oto-Peralías, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
• The heroine feels a sense of belonging; she is told that this is the home of her ancestors.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
• The escalation of the conflict puts the Chicago Federation of Labor, to which both unions belong, in a tough spot.
  — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
• It will be seen whether today’s concerns over Jewish safety and belonging alter this trend.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025