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Example sentences for "belongings"

Lexicographically close words:
belonge; belonged; belongeth; belonging; belonginge; belongs; beloued; beloved; belovyd; below
  1. I hope I'll see you soon," she said, as Philip began to gather up his belongings preparatory to leaving the car.

  2. Madge was a good business woman, and she disposed of all her superfluous belongings except her camera.

  3. I wrote a civil note to the young man, asking him to let me have the gun in a few days, as I was collecting my belongings for the journey back to England.

  4. A few days after this ceremony those of the dead man's sons who have founded a household of their own raise a small hut near their own establishment to accommodate the personal belongings of the deceased.

  5. We hastily put back our belongings and tumble the boxes out into the yard.

  6. She had known him first as a boy, with boyish belongings around him, and she had seen him from time to time as he became a man, almost with too much intimacy for the creation of that love with which he wished to fill her heart.

  7. Now the archdeacon was not exactly adorned; but he was so thoroughly imbued with high clerical belongings and sacerdotal fitnesses as to appear always as a walking, sitting, or standing impersonation of parsondom.

  8. The ladies' apartments have been completely stripped, and their belongings will go up this time, so that there will be no occasion for them to return.

  9. Norbanus said as he came down from above, where Lesbia was raging at the news that much of their belongings would have to be abandoned.

  10. It was through very difficult country where no wheeled traffic could pass, so we were to ride, with all our belongings carried by coolies.

  11. One of his belongings inspired them with wholesome dread.

  12. The belongings of individuals, even of individual families, were very few.

  13. It was the property of some one whose belongings had a certain air of difference from those of other people.

  14. She's quarreled with her beastly uncle at last; all her belongings are in the hold of the steamer, and she's made up her mind.

  15. Darrell lifted one book after another with the reverential touch of the true book-lover, while Mr. Britton hastily arranged the belongings of the room so as to render it as cosey and attractive as possible.

  16. The wagon loaded with Darrell's belongings was just coming slowly into view, with Mr. Underwood on the seat beside the driver, the other teams having been sent to the stables by another route.

  17. Schools and all their belongings were purchased by the Earl of Dudley, whose open-hearted liberality has so often been extended over almost every object of worth and public utility in Dudley and its neighbourhood.

  18. Prior to the American advent, Datto Mandi, protégé as well as protector of the Spaniards, exercised a sort of feudal dominion over the services and the sundry cherished belongings of his people.

  19. A great many families packed up their belongings and went over to Negros Island in small schooners.

  20. Accordingly they began to pack up what few belongings Mr. Ranger wanted to take away with him.

  21. Most of the students had left the campus to pack up their belongings while a number had already departed for home.

  22. She was sitting up, straight and outwardly calm, pushing her cloak and other detached belongings away from her with an unconscious movement of disencumbering herself for some desperate leap.

  23. She moved uneasily, making a bustle of arranging herself and her belongings in the seat, her heart troubled with the shadow of some vague fear.

  24. I have a friend in America, whom I sometimes jestingly call an "Anglomaniac," because he admires Great Britain and her belongings so much.

  25. Bevy had removed her few belongings from David's room before he returned; there remained in the Hartman house no evidence of her presence.

  26. Cassie was so unpleasantly particular about her belongings that she would not invite her neighbors to quiltings and apple-butter boilings, and so inhumanly unsocial that she would not attend those functions at other houses.

  27. These belongings I gathered together, and finding me obdurate, Lying Bill reluctantly agreed to set them on the beach.

  28. We were dressed to call upon the governor, whose inauguration was to take place that afternoon, and leaving my belongings in care of the faithful Exploding Eggs, we set off up the valley.

  29. As I was a mere roamer, with no calendar or even a watch, I had but to fetch my few belongings ashore and be a Marquesan.

  30. She glanced at her belongings and suddenly remembered the book she had brought with her to read, one of the new novels from the cottage, a goodly sized volume in a bright red cover.

  31. They packed up their belongings with zeal just after nightfall and later[59] started out, but fell into the ambush set and suffered a terrible reverse.

  32. They knew well that the same practices as acquire good things serve also to preserve them: hence they made sure many of their original belongings and acquired many new ones.

  33. After that the four young hunters packed up their belongings and saw to it that the campfire was completely extinguished.

  34. Those two unworthies had come forth looking both cowed and excited, and they had rushed up to their rooms to pack their belongings without delay.

  35. Graham explained that they had taken rooms at a farmhouse a little way down the road, and had left their belongings there.

  36. Lucy gathered up her belongings and made a hasty exit, while Peggy followed her out upon the porch.

  37. Sir Walter would know that, and he would tell our few belongings that we had gone out in our country's service.

  38. Then wishing the old woman and her belongings a merry Christmas, I departed and took the shortest cut out of the village.

  39. It carried the people and all their belongings cheaply and quickly, and then it carried their produce to New Orleans; and so the great West was settled.

  40. So they all set about getting their little belongings together.

  41. Intrusting their belongings to a porter and a taxi, with instructions to proceed to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, they bade the chauffeur travel at top speed to No.

  42. He illustrated the slipping of the clubs, and his theory was borne out subsequently by the negro porter who had brought Curtis's belongings upstairs.

  43. Curtis, whose belongings were locked and strapped hours ago, remained on deck, and watched the preparations for bringing the great liner alongside the Cunard pier.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belongings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessory; acquisition; appanage; appendage; appointments; appurtenances; belongings; chattel; effects; equipment; estate; furniture; gear; good; luggage; movables; paraphernalia; perquisite; possession; property; stuff; thing; things; trappings