How to Use belonging in a Sentence

belonging

noun
  • This deep bag can fit all of your belongings and more.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Cops can show up any time to throw away your belongings.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • All guests will be searched and have their belongings scanned.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2024
  • All guests will be searched and have their belongings scanned.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
  • All guests will be searched and have their belongings scanned.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The group was told to leave their belongings on the bus and searched.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But that sense of belonging has frayed.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Then her mom found a hall pass in her belongings with the male name on it.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Her belongings were strewn around her.
    — Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
  • What once felt like belonging may not feel like a burden.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Meet your guide and store any belongings in lockers in the gift shop.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • The queue was an act of belonging, and the queue was an end in itself.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Cars and belongings burned as well, all in the middle of the night.
    — Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • And then there’s the weight of a lifetime of belongings.
    — Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Lathome’s home and a life of belongings burned.
    — Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The woman was able to take a handful of her belongings with her in a bag.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
  • Some of their belongings were stolen, police said.
    — ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • The need to create a strong sense of purpose and belonging is not new.
    — Andrew Dawson, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The doors also have a bolt lock to help keep belongings secure.
    — Isabel Garcia, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The woman woke up as flames spread to her hand and engulfed her belongings.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • When the time came, I was told to leave all of my belongings behind.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 June 2026
  • The rest of her belongings appeared to have been taken with her.
    — Kyani Reid, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
  • For weeks, there was no sign of Dee Dee or any of her belongings.
    — Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The shooter then gathers some belongings and walks back to her car.
    — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Baker wrote, in one of the many essays and texts left among her belongings.
    — Lou Stoppard, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The suspect pointed some kind of firearm at them and took some of their belongings.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The crew and their belongings were saved but the catamaran was lost.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Jennifer was nowhere to be seen but her belongings had been left behind.
    — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Their belongings did the four hundred miles in a removal van.
    — Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The woman and her two children were left with no belongings but the clothes on their backs.
    — Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025

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