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Example sentences for "belongs"

Lexicographically close words:
belonged; belongeth; belonging; belonginge; belongings; beloued; beloved; belovyd; below; belowe
  1. Ah, you say that because it belongs to England.

  2. Mr. Hodden says, sir, that the room belongs to him.

  3. Schreiber distinguishes ten issues and editions, in addition to an earlier German one of a less elaborate design and with manuscript text, which belongs to a different tradition.

  4. To this man belongs the honour of inventing Printing, an honour of which he was unjustly robbed, and which afterwards was ascribed to another.

  5. Indeed fully one-half of the regimental museum is already collected, and belongs to Capt.

  6. He belongs to one of the Algonquin tribes, and they used to be allies of ours.

  7. It belongs to the Marquis de Beaujardin," replied Perigord, piteously.

  8. Yes, messere, he may claim that it belongs to him by right; but he obtained it from me by fraud, as neither he nor his sister can deny.

  9. We do not demand the abundance which belongs to us, hence the leanness, the lack of fulness, the incompleteness of our lives.

  10. The more you know, the more you can save yourself and that which belongs to you, and do more work with less effort.

  11. When you first read it, it belongs to the author.

  12. To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp.

  13. A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.

  14. In certain instances adults appeared to be able to discriminate more accurately and more easily than young mice, but it is difficult to say whether this change belongs under sensitiveness or docility.

  15. To this acute observer belongs the credit of calling attention emphatically to the ear movements which are exhibited by the dancer.

  16. It belongs to all the Centaurs; and, as it is public property, nobody may take any of it without the leave of the whole tribe.

  17. But what happened to him there, and how he escaped the punishment of his daring, belongs to another story.

  18. The whole canton belongs to the valley of the Rhine.

  19. The mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, belongs to the same nat.

  20. Danube takes its rise, belongs to the basin of the Rhine, which bounds it on the south and west.

  21. The American badger belongs to a separate genus.

  22. It is divided into two unequal parts by the Tropic of Capricorn, and consequently belongs partly to the South Temperate, partly to the Torrid Zone.

  23. The northern portion belongs to the basin of the Main, which receives the Regnitz and Saale, and is a tributary of the Rhine.

  24. The meaning 'confusion' assigned to it in the Bible really belongs to a word of similar form.

  25. There are several kinds of bailiffs, whose offices widely differ, but all agree in this, that the keeping or protection of something belongs to them.

  26. The life which belongs to the Ego in him is taken up by the physical body, and assimilated with the lower lives of which the body is composed.

  27. If on the astral plane you are threatened with danger which belongs to the physical, but are unwise enough to think it can injure you, it will injure your physical body.

  28. Purification of Bodies The unfolding of powers belongs to the side of consciousness; purification of bodies belongs to the side of matter.

  29. The answer is: "Pleasure belongs to the Self as a whole.

  30. That which was a glimpse of a far-off majesty shall become a perpetual realisation and, knowing the Self and your unity with it, you shall enter into the Peace that belongs to the Self alone.

  31. His wife is more suspicious, for she belongs to a generation of women that was ignorant and reveled in its ignorance and called it charm, a generation when all women were fools except the spitfires and the wits.

  32. That part of the programme belongs to the ultimates.

  33. Even Fergusson, the celebrated defender of the Egyptian antiquities and hostile critic of those of India, insists that Karli belongs to the erections of the third century B.

  34. The invention of the vina, a kind of lute, belongs to Narada, the son of Brahma.

  35. If a member of some Hindu family happens to be afflicted from birth with some organic defect, this will not be an impediment to his marrying, on the condition that his wife should be also a cripple, if she belongs to the same caste.

  36. For instance, we were in the Raj of Amjir in Malva, and we were going to the little city of Bagh, which also belongs to Malva and is included in the Amjir Raj.

  37. This curious fact was long considered to be a mere fable, but it has now been verified, and belongs to the natural history of India.

  38. There is not the slightest doubt that the purest and the highest of all the musical forms of antiquity belongs to India.

  39. The vampire, in its turn, belongs to the species of vertebrates.

  40. All this belongs to knowledge; the increase of the mass of knowledge will only enrich and not abolish science.

  41. His chief occupation is the study of the book called Adigrantha, which belongs to the sacred literature of this strange bellicose sect.

  42. Sita-Rama belongs to the category of mythological dramas, something like the tragedies of Aeschylus.

  43. Rio sees clearly and philosophically enough what is the root of Manicheanism--the denial that that which is natural, beautiful, human, belongs to God.

  44. This, like 'Betsy Thoughtless,' belongs to 1751.

  45. With the later use of Savile House, as the home of Hiss Linwood's Art Needlework, which belongs to the present century, this paper has nothing to do.

  46. Among the manuscripts proper of this collection, the place of honour belongs to one which Mason had labelled 'Original Copy of the Elegy in a Country Church Yard.

  47. The Brazil nut tree belongs to a genus of Lecythidaceæ of which there is only one species, Bertholletia excelsa.

  48. A-sharp belongs to this scale, but B-natural does not.

  49. Taking the spirit shield, which belongs in the dwelling, she puts oil at each corner, and then touches the heads of all the family with it.

  50. I don't care if she sees everything we do; no one of us shall ever harm her or anyone that belongs to her.

  51. But sometimes the banshee leaves Ireland with the family that she belongs to, and so did ours.

  52. He belongs to the fairies who live by themselves, not to those who live together honestly in a rath.

  53. But it was his duty, father, to stand by the show, seein' he belongs to it.

  54. It is an ingenious scheme to rob me of what rightfully belongs to me.

  55. I crave pardon," said the woman, curtseying, "the pretty lady belongs to the great folk down yonder.

  56. There is, however, a large class of remains, comprising sculptural tablets, and heads and figures of animals, which belongs to a higher grade of art.

  57. It clearly belongs to that great family of remains, of which so many examples have already been presented.

  58. It is doubtful whether this particular shell belongs to the era of the mounds, or is of a later date.

  59. It will shortly be seen that the mound first described (number 2 of the plan) probably belongs to the class of altar or sacrificial mounds, or those which were connected with the superstitions of the builders.

  60. They think and talk a great deal of what concerns them, and you seldom hear them praise anything that belongs to their neighbors.

  61. It does not require all this show and pretension to keep the place which really belongs to him, and to attempt more than this, will only draw upon him neglect and contempt.

  62. War, even between Independent Nations, is made to subdue the Enemy, and all that belongs to that Enemy, by occupying the hostile country, and exercising dominion over all the men and things within its territory.

  63. Perhaps the most valuable specimen for scientific use that has ever been in captivity is Johanna, who belongs to the same gentleman.

  64. The name pongo which he gave to one of them belongs to the Fiot tongue, which is spoken by the native tribes around Loango.

  65. I would not be understood to mean that he could work out any abstract problem, such as belongs to the realm of mathematics, but simple, concrete problems, where the object was present.

  66. She has neither the distinction of look nor the force of character which belongs to her two sisters.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.