How to Use belong to in a Sentence

belong to

phrasal verb
Definition of belong tonext
  • 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 dining tent that Moore’s fragment belongs to is now being held at the Smithsonian.
    — Kaila Nichols, CNN, 21 July 2024
  • The job of coordinating all these efforts belongs to the city Health Department.
    — Jessica Gallagher, New York Times, 23 May 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
  • The police also shared a photo of a white SUV believed to belong to the shooter.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The role belonged to Linda Hunt in Lynch's 1984 adaptation.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Moore left after realizing that the car did not belong to him.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • This marked a change in the west’s tactics: ships were sanctioned for the first time explicitly for belonging to the shadow fleet.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune Europe, 10 July 2024
  • But not to replace voices and writings and not to replace a human being that belongs to God.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The names and prescriptions listed on the pill bottles did not belong to Connett, police say.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • And there are always more cool cars out there, rudely belonging to someone else.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 Aug. 2023

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