How to Use belong to in a Sentence

belong to

phrasal verb

• Crows and ravens belong to the same corvid family and are often confused for each other, but there are ways to tell them apart.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• Prosecutors said the 47-year-old Hill was holding a cell phone in one hand and a set of keys in the other when he was shot dead in the garage of a home belonging to a friend.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
• The camera lingers on the girl’s face before showing her photograph taped to a wall next to pictures of other kids in a dark, dingy-looking room where a laptop — apparently belonging to a child predator — has the same chat open.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• In the second half, the hot hands belonged to Brooks and Moore.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
• Bradford pear trees belong to the Pyrus calleryana (Callery pear) species.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
• The jet belongs to a training squadron of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
  — Josh Cradduck, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• The car belonged to John Joubert, a scout leader, who confessed to killing the boys.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 July 2024
• The record for the most weeks at No. 1 in Hot 100 history belongs to Mariah Carey.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Emphasize that her body hair belongs to her, and that nobody has the right to tell her what to do with it.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2024
• The film was produced over the course of 10 years, and used the actual home that once belonged to the Höss family.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
• This is the oldest fossil ever found belonging to the line that leads to us.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• Rick, Morty, and the rest of Roiland’s characters belong to the latter group.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• Rachel still lives in the house that used to belong to their dead mother, while Maggie lives nearby.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Police said shackles that belonged to Meade, along with Mauney’s dogs, were found in the cabin.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 19 July 2024
• The police also shared a photo of a white SUV believed to belong to the shooter.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• That’s also why the school can’t be 100% certain that the signature belonged to Cleary.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• And a handprint found inches from where the shooting occurred did not belong to him.
  — Dperry, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The inscription was found inside a home that may have belonged to one of the man’s supporters or friends.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• The suspects were found driving a Honda Civic that police said belonged to one of the victims.
  — S. Dev, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• For instance, monotremes such as the platypus and echidna belong to a unique and ancient class of mammals.
  — Gat Rauner, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
• The role belonged to Linda Hunt in Lynch's 1984 adaptation.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• Three belong to the same man, French swimming phenom Léon Marchand.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2024
• Something rooted in a heritage that belongs to all of us: that eternal spring.
  — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., TIME, 27 Apr. 2024
• In the interim, a Shell station went up across the street, belonging to Navaz Malik.
  — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
• A number of gangs operate there, but, if Cofield belonged to one back then, no one seems to have noticed.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• From there, authorities were able to track down the IP of the computer that was used to make the request and confirmed in belonged to Paez.
  — Jessica Schladebeck New York Daily News (tns), al, 20 July 2023
• There's no evidence the X account shown in the Instagram post belonged to Gray.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
• While birds are descendants of theropods—the same group of dinosaurs that T. rex belonged to—theropods themselves were reptiles.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2024
• Growing up, Jeremy saw the men in his family belong to gangs.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024