BELONG in a Sentence

Learn BELONG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
263 example sentences for BELONG, such as:
1. And I belong in those old times.
2. The battle does not always belong to the strong.
3. Writers like him belong to a different generation.
4. Several of the points you raise do not belong in this discussion.
5. Establish which boundary hedges are yours, and which belong to a neighbour.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BELONG
belong
 v.  be a part or adjunct
 v.  be suitable or acceptable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If the money it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficiently troubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Mr. Calvert was standing close by the side of his Yankee wife, who even after fifteen years in Georgia never seemed to quite belong anywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  And I belong in those old times.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  I do not belong in this mad present of killing and I fear I will not fit into any future, try though I may.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  You see, all of our Confederate funds belong to the Yankees now--at least, the Yankees think so.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  And our folks had paid good solid money for it, and I thought it still ought to belong to the Confederacy or to the Confederates.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Scarlett, lying exhausted in bed, feebly and silently thanked God that Ashley had too much sense to belong to the Klan and Frank was too old and poor spirited.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  She had never belonged to Charles or Frank, could never really belong to Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  But I'm on the other side now and if I can assist in any way in putting them where they belong, I'll do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
12  Now she was beginning to chafe at the obligations it imposed, to feel herself a mere pensioner on the splendour which had once seemed to belong to her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  She had no desire to slaughter birds, but she did desire to belong to Kennicott's world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Nothing is cheaper than the minds of some of these children that come in and bother me simply because their mothers don't keep them home where they belong.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  However charitable toward the Lower Classes she may have thought herself, Carol had been reared to assume that servants belong to a distinct and inferior species.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The battle does not always belong to the strong.
2  While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations.
3  Several of the points you raise do not belong in this discussion.
4  Establish which boundary hedges are yours, and which belong to a neighbour.
5  Writers like him belong to a different generation.
6  The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.
7  Don't give up the things that belong to you and keep those lost things in memory.
8  The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
9  Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.
10  From now onwards everyone will have to communicate in Marathi irrespective of what they belong to.
11  In the King George, his jockey feels, horse and rider proved they belong on this exalted stage.
12  You may not enjoy being sibling of ours, but we cannot forget that we still belong to the same family.
13  It's not just the stories they tell but the fact that they all belong to unions that weaves Hollywood so intricately into the fabric of American life.
14  Pro tip for thieves: If you're going to steal an iPhone, make sure it doesn't belong to a famed New York Times tech columnist.
15  Supporting also have the chance to you but eliminated belongs to me and mesmerizing.