How to Use belonging in a Sentence

belonging

noun

• The queue was an act of belonging, and the queue was an end in itself.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
• All guests will be searched and have their belongings scanned.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
• The crew and their belongings were saved but the catamaran was lost.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Meet your guide and store any belongings in lockers in the gift shop.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 13 May 2023
• Futons, clothes, a lamp, a few books, and a cat—that was the extent of our belongings.
  — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• The woman was able to take a handful of her belongings with her in a bag.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
• All guests will be searched and have their belongings scanned.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
• The rest of the Lakota belongings were plundered or burned.
  — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• The bag snaps closed at the top and has a zip pocket inside to keep your belongings secure.
  — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2024
• The suspect pointed some kind of firearm at them and took some of their belongings.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Their belongings remained behind at the farms, part of a crime scene.
  — Ray Chavez, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The family sold most of their belongings, their home, and their car, and moved to Panama in 2019.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• Swan, an activist who asked to use a code name, came back around the same time and saw their belongings strewn across the forest floor from the raid.
  — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• Both the victim and the 44-year-old gunman were in the park when the younger man accused the shooter of stealing his belongings.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• Think: No more rummaging through your belongings at the airport check-in or on the plane.
  — Lauren Fischer, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
• Their tent was found containing all of their belongings and cut open from the inside with a knife.
  — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
• Reuters footage showed people returning to the site of the bombing to check on their belongings, and fires burning in the area.
  — Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
• The rest of your belongings go into a wide, zip-close top and can be stored in a zip pocket or pouches sewed into the walls of the bag.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
• The vast majority of our belongings came from the kitchen and closet.
  — Alex Milmeyster, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The chest pocket for storing a phone and other small belongings is convenient and the cuffs around the wrist are a nice touch as well.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2023
• The last thing any traveler wants is to be stopped by TSA and have your belongings rummaged through.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2024
• Most of her belongings, including bags of clothes, an air fryer and a fan, were piled in the hallway.
  — Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• Around them in the grass were blankets, school backpacks and other belongings.
  — Najib Jobain, Samya Kullab, Ravi Nessman and Matthew Lee The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• For a makeshift cake, the families managed to find a prepackaged donut amongst their belongings, and a candle to stick in the middle of it.
  — Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
• Her boxes sat at the entrance of the building, along with plastic bags filled with her belongings.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• The high priest had to work double duty leading the prayers and making sure the monkeys didn’t steal our belongings!
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
• After her older son died, a soldier showed up at their home with a trunk of his belongings.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
• The couple returned that evening to find the safe and closets of their room empty, their belongings gone, Wallace wrote.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• With her home and most of her belongings destroyed in the Oct. 9 storm, the family is raising money to help Huston move forward.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• Wielding a blade, the attacker demanded Oh’s keys and belongings.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024