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Example sentences for "belonging"

Lexicographically close words:
belong; belonga; belonge; belonged; belongeth; belonginge; belongings; belongs; beloued; beloved
  1. The things he drew and painted there, in Zundert, were already stamped with an exceedingly strong personal character, though they are very different from the works belonging to his later French period.

  2. Arriving in the evening of March 7th at Batuassa, the first village belonging to the Rajah of Tobo, and under the government of Banda, the surf was very heavy, owing to a strong westward swell.

  3. I accordingly inquired for a house outside of the village on the road to the coal mines, and was informed by the Secretary that there was a small one belonging to the Sultan, and that he would go with me early next morning to see it.

  4. A little further on there was a plantation belonging to Guebe people, but under the care of a Papuan slave, and the next morning we got some plantains and a few vegetables in exchange for a handkerchief and some knives.

  5. The Moluccas are especially rich in the parrot tribe, no less than twenty-two species, belonging to ten genera, inhabiting them.

  6. In three hours' rowing and sailing we reached our destination, Sedingole, where there is a house belonging to the Sultan of Tidore, who sometimes goes there hunting.

  7. My only purchases were a float belonging to a turtle-spear, carved to resemble a bird, and a very well made palm-leaf box, for which articles I gave a copper ring and a yard of calico.

  8. We started on the 25th of March in the schooner Hester Helena, belonging to my friend Mr. Duivenboden, and bound on a trading voyage along the north coast of New Guinea.

  9. The first is the small flying opossum, Belideus ariel, a beautiful little animal, exactly line a small flying squirrel in appearance, but belonging to the marsupial order.

  10. A large house on the beach belonging to the Sultan was given me.

  11. The "coal measure" was only one-eighth of an inch in thickness, but within it were found specimens of plants belonging to the Miocene period.

  12. He was greatly taken with a toy drum belonging to one of the party, and played his own idea of a melody upon it.

  13. In 1884 articles undoubtedly belonging to members of her crew were found in floating ice off the coast of Greenland.

  14. These were all regarded as belonging to the Tertiary period.

  15. Among these were some genera belonging to the higher forms of invertebrate life, but apparently as yet no vertebrated animals.

  16. A geological formation is being produced, and it contains the skeletons and other solid parts of a vast variety of creatures belonging to all climates, and which have lived on land as well as in fresh and salt water.

  17. These are creatures not belonging to the Edenic centre of creation, but introduced in an earlier part of the sixth day, and now permitted to exist along with man in his fallen state.

  18. It is evident that the words of the inspired writer include plants belonging to all the great subdivisions of the vegetable kingdom.

  19. There are also fragments of stalagmite from an old crust broken up when the breccia was deposited, and possibly belonging to Pliocene times.

  20. Hughes was, like myself, a companion of Sir Charles Lyell in some of his journeys, though belonging to a younger generation of geologists, and is an accurate observer and reasoner.

  21. This was a Preglacial era, and may be regarded as belonging to the close of the Pliocene tertiary.

  22. This would explain their total disappearance, which, after all, is no more strange than the utter absence of any manuscripts belonging to Beaumont or Fletcher, or any other dramatic writer of the period.

  23. He probably used some other contemporary play, belonging to the theatre, which had proved a failure in its original form, and which both his company and his own inclinations urged him to thoroughly recast.

  24. Then, except for the feeling of belonging to a despised caste and the increasing spread of Puritanism, he was at peace with his surroundings.

  25. In London, in the Hall belonging to the Merchants of the Steel-Yard, he had no doubt seen two greatly admired pictures by Holbein which hung there.

  26. But with Hamlet it is a question of more than "honour," a conception belonging to a sphere far below his.

  27. All the conceptions of honour belonging to mediæval chivalry are transferred to ancient Rome.

  28. Wandering there of an autumn afternoon, when the leaves are beginning to turn faintly golden, a strange feeling comes over one--a feeling belonging to the place, from which it is very difficult to tear oneself away.

  29. And lastly, it is to be noticed that not by any means all the individuals belonging to more advanced societies who come in contact with savages use them with inhumanity, or even retaliate on treachery and injury.

  30. Mutilation was often inflicted merely for the killing of game belonging to the King's forests, and though the Forest Charter of Henry III.

  31. A man belonging to the educated class, and charged with important functions, succeeded for a long time in concealing his alcoholic habits from the eyes of the public; his family were the only sufferers by it.

  32. Species and Law include no mere plurality of objects and instances, for as often as the instance comes to pass the law is fulfilled, and the number belonging to a species is, in conception, limitless.

  33. There are moral sores and ulcers as little suited to artistic literature, and belonging properly to works on social healing alone.

  34. It has been said even by one belonging to the advanced school of Ethics, that, if the course of Evolution could be shown to prescribe immoral conduct, the duty of the moral man would be to oppose evolution even if he perished in the attempt.

  35. In this book is traced the history of five hundred and forty persons belonging to seven generations of descendants of five sisters, there being much intermarrying among them.

  36. The pleasure which is thus a part of the object is not a future pleasure, but that which is actually present in our minds, belonging to the ideal object as part of it--the represented pleasure of attainment.

  37. The man wore a slave's dress, and was recognized as belonging to the prætorian lieutenant Patrocles.

  38. A short distance below camp we run a rapid, and in doing so break an oar and then lose another, both belonging to the "Emma Dean.

  39. On the Rio Virgen and in the mountains round about, a confederacy of tribes speaking the Ute language and belonging to the Shoshonian family have their homes.

  40. The people of Hano also speak a radically distinct language, belonging to another stock of tribes.

  41. Some of its tributaries rise in the mountains to the south, in the territory belonging to the republic of Mexico, but the Gila gathers the greater part of its waters from a great plateau on the northeast.

  42. Christophers recently described some remarkable phases which he regarded as belonging to the cycle of Haemogregarina gerbilli (one of the few Mammalian Haemogregarines known) in a louse (Haematopinus).

  43. Abies or Pinus, are regarded as belonging to the outgrowth from the carpellary scale and specially developed to supply the ovules.

  44. After a tour in northern Europe, including the Scandinavian mining districts, he undertook the scientific direction of the porcelain works at Elbogen, belonging to his brothers.

  45. The kingdom known to Europe by the name of Persia is styled by its inhabitants Irân, though I doubt whether a Persian subject belonging to a particular tribe or sect would call himself Irâni.

  46. The latest example of this class of Memoirs, belonging to the Revolutionary or Napoleonic cycle, is to be found in the Adventures of A.

  47. Belonging to the race of Scott and Dumas, of the romantic narrators and creators, Stevenson belonged no less to that of Montaigne and the literary egotists.

  48. Afghans as belonging to one of three heads--women, money, and land; and on such matters disputes are more likely to arise between cousins than strangers.

  49. Now the first observation that I submit to you is that the production of all history has been almost entirely the work of Europeans, among whom I reckon the American writers, as belonging by language and culture to Europe.

  50. He regarded Robert Turold as belonging to this latter class.

  51. She had the sensation of belonging to another world and could not have communicated with them if she had wished.

  52. Asiatic labourers belonging to the unskilled class as opposed to the artisan, and employed in a special sense to designate those natives of India and China who leave their country under contracts of service to work as labourers abroad.

  53. The consideration in addition to a gross sum or a rent charge may consist of a conveyance of land, or of a right to mines or minerals, or of a right to waste in lands belonging to the manor, or partly in one way and partly in another.

  54. Its origin is to be found in the occupation by villani, or non-freemen, of portions of land belonging to the manor of a feudal lord.

  55. Their chief difference from English co-partnership societies is that they very rarely admit to membership any persons not belonging to the trade.

  56. Old Kingdom, and the decree of an Antef belonging to the latter part of the Middle Kingdom, deposing the monarch for siding with the king's enemy.

  57. COOT, a well-known water-fowl, the Fulica atra of Linnaeus, belonging to the family Rallidae or rails.

  58. Send that belonging to General Wright's corps as far on the road to Hanover Town as it can go, without attracting attention to the fact.

  59. This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General Ferrero, belonging to Burnside's corps.

  60. While at Milledgeville the soldiers met at the State House, organized a legislature, and proceeded to business precisely as if they were the legislative body belonging to the State of Georgia.

  61. The secret and plan of attack, however, were incautiously divulged to a slave named Devany, belonging to Col.

  62. Old Uncle Peter had been of great service to our Government in piloting our officers to localities where large quantities of cotton belonging to the rebel Government were concealed.

  63. Then there were the snobs, usually prep school men with more money than they could handle wisely, utterly contemptuous of any man not belonging to a fraternity or of one belonging to any of the lesser fraternities.

  64. Leslie struck a chord, and opened her lips to sing, when the sound of the wheels belonging to the one fly in the place came down the uneven street.

  65. As this was at some little distance, and as Aph-Lin was not fond of walking, while I had discreetly relinquished all attempts at flying, we proceeded to our destination in one of the aerial boats belonging to my host.

  66. The age of the tiles may be determined by comparing the designs imprinted upon them with the architectural decorations belonging to particular periods.

  67. The lists, as the barriers were called which inclosed the scene of combat, were superbly decorated, and surrounded by pavilions belonging to the champions, ornamented with their arms and banners.

  68. It is curious, too, that all the strips belonging to one man did not lie together, but were scattered all over the common land, which must have been a very inconvenient arrangement for farming purposes.

  69. He several times led his army through Lothian, the district belonging to the Angles between the Forth and the Tweed, but was never quite able to conquer it.

  70. Of the remaining three, Dickie took two, which belonged to Johnie and Willie Armstrong, and the one belonging to the Laird's Jock he left loose in the stable.

  71. When looking at him the Shawanoe, for the first time in his life, saw a dwarf belonging to his own race.

  72. A party of Blackfeet stole a number of horses belonging to Lewis and Clark's party, were pursued, and one of the Indians killed and another wounded.

  73. Fully half a dozen of the Blackfoot horses were frozen to death, and those belonging to our friends would have perished but for the care they received.

  74. Among the latter was one belonging to the grizzly species.

  75. And of course all interests in the little provincial city were for many days to come absorbed in the terrible interest belonging to the investigation of the foul deed which had been done.

  76. It could not but seem, however, to everybody that the Marchese Ludovico and La Lalli had agreed together to represent a pair belonging to the most gorgeous and picturesque days of Venetian history.

  77. He had held various municipal offices, and had discharged the functions belonging to them with credit and applause.

  78. Perhaps the most striking figure in the rooms, however, was one of those few persons who have been mentioned as present, but not belonging to Ravenna, or to the class of its nobles.

  79. These are jumping or Saltigrade spiders, belonging to the Attidae.

  80. Near him were two Pixies belonging to the Vaulting Legion who had taken refuge from the flood within the tower, and whose bright eyes shone out of the deep shadows wherein they lay.

  81. The pawnshop in question had 700 watches on pledge, most of them belonging to workmen in the town.

  82. The number of seamen belonging to the ship is nowhere definitely stated.

  83. If cranes or other loading appliances belonging to the Railway are used by Consignor or Consignee, a charge of 3d.

  84. Goods belonging to Class A, in quantities of 10 tons in one truck are carried at the rates of Class B.

  85. The rates for Furniture Vans belonging to private parties represent the charge for 6,000 kilog.

  86. Dogs belonging to Passengers are charged at 0·015 m.

  87. The consignor may also give directions that the goods belonging to Class A are to be carried at the rates of Class B, in which case they are conveyed in open trucks.

  88. For Cotton and other Wools, Drugs and Manufactured Goods, the sum of Twopence Halfpenny per ton per mile; and if conveyed in carriages belonging to the Company an additional sum per ton per mile not exceeding One Halfpenny.

  89. For Fish and all other Wares, Merchandise, Articles, Matters or Things, per ton per mile not exceeding Threepence; and if conveyed in carriages belonging to the Company an additional sum per ton per mile not exceeding One Halfpenny.

  90. If a man were to come to poverty on this account, he would undoubtedly be supported, but he would only be supported as belonging to the poor of the society.

  91. The subject, the names, and the characters, belonging to it, were now all of them feigned.

  92. It is neither followed for food, nor for prevention of injury to man, or to the creatures belonging to him.

  93. These deputies are all of them previously instructed in the matters, belonging to the congregations, which they respectively represent.

  94. He considered these as belonging to their families, and that religious instruction was due to these, as the branches of them, for whom one day or other they would be required to give a solemn account.

  95. There was also to be no office in the society belonging to the men, but he advised there should be a corresponding one belonging to the women.


  96. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belonging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admissible; appertaining; applicable; apposite; appropriate; apropos; fellowship; germane; material; pertaining; pertinent; relevant