belong - use in sentences
Object
- part: To him must belong the greater part of the credit for the early days of the parish.
- ': Karen is also tackling dog poop problems and will put irresponsible owners where they belong รข in the doghouse.
- degree: And so to all the intermediate colors in a continued series belong intermediate degrees of refrangibility.
- home: If a mother comes into a Western home, she has to be subordinate to the wife; to the wife belongs the home.
Used with why or when
- where: Here was something that really didn't belong where it was.
- which: Is it to do with the tradition of theology to which they belong which simply discounts the need for the Virgin Birth?
- when: Read more " Spectators " ( 5/7 ) is a reflection on our deep and intrinsic need to anonymously belong when viewing thrilling events.
Infinitive complement
- please: If you think you know who it belongs to please email Charles Christacopoulos.
Modifying Another Word
- formerly: The manor belonged formerly to St. Peter's Abbey at Chertsey.
- thereto: King Edward VI granted out, in fee, the lands and tenements belonging thereto to Thomas Dalston and William Denton.
- rightfully: She then learns that her Axel is taking a job that rightfully belongs to her father.
- exclusively: The wages, savings and any windfall received by a working class woman belonged exclusively to her husband.
- once: The village once belonged to the Duke of Bedford.
- properly: Their meaning has been ' contaminated ' by the meanings which properly belong in different arenas, different ' language games ' .
Preposition: in
- past: Memories are fine - but they do belong in the past.
- domain: It is reproduced here because this information belongs in the public domain and should not be subject to government censorship.
- library: REVIEWS...A copy belongs in every university library, government aid agency, donor organization, and NGO resource center.
- family: The [ European Communities Act ] clearly belongs in this family... .
- sphere: The key is to sort out properly what belongs in the public sphere - and what does not.
- order: Today's approach reverses this order: you need to be welcomed and made to feel that you belong in order to believe.
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