How to Use belong to in a Sentence

belong to

phrasal verb

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• As both armies came through town, any empty building was presumed to belong to sympathizers for the other side and was set on fire.
  — Randy McCrory, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
• Someone finally found her secret stash and rooted out the wedding rings that belonged to her and her late husband.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Even workers who do not belong to a union are covered by collective agreements.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• The play of the day belonged to quarterback Ethan Garbers, who completed a 55-yard pass to slot receiver Logan Loya.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• In Sweden, two-thirds of working adults belong to a union, and around 90% work in places with collective bargaining agreements.
  — Jonas Ekblom, Fortune Europe, 8 Dec. 2023
• An even nicer and better question, perhaps, for an editor like Judith, who belonged to her writers, and they to her.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024