BELONG in a Sentence

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For BELONG, below is one of 263 sentences:
And our folks had paid good solid money for it, and I thought it still ought to belong to the Confederacy or to the Confederates.

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 Meanings and Examples of BELONG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
belong
 v.  be in the relation of a member
 v.  be the property of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If the money it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficiently troubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Mr. Calvert was standing close by the side of his Yankee wife, who even after fifteen years in Georgia never seemed to quite belong anywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  And I belong in those old times.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  I do not belong in this mad present of killing and I fear I will not fit into any future, try though I may.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  You see, all of our Confederate funds belong to the Yankees now--at least, the Yankees think so.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  And our folks had paid good solid money for it, and I thought it still ought to belong to the Confederacy or to the Confederates.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Scarlett, lying exhausted in bed, feebly and silently thanked God that Ashley had too much sense to belong to the Klan and Frank was too old and poor spirited.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  She had never belonged to Charles or Frank, could never really belong to Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  But I'm on the other side now and if I can assist in any way in putting them where they belong, I'll do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
12  Now she was beginning to chafe at the obligations it imposed, to feel herself a mere pensioner on the splendour which had once seemed to belong to her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  She had no desire to slaughter birds, but she did desire to belong to Kennicott's world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Nothing is cheaper than the minds of some of these children that come in and bother me simply because their mothers don't keep them home where they belong.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  However charitable toward the Lower Classes she may have thought herself, Carol had been reared to assume that servants belong to a distinct and inferior species.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  The author belongs among the romance writers more than among the novelists.
17  You will have it if it belongs to you,whereas you don't kveth for it if it doesn't appear in your life.
18  The pen belongs under the sink.
19  The future belongs to him who knows how to wait.
20  This world belongs to the energetic.
21  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
22  Put the chair back where it belongs.
23  That dictionary belongs to the class.
24  He belongs to the lower middle class.
25  So they try to untangle what is undiscernible or to determine what belongs to each of us.
26  Happiness belongs to those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
27  This glass belongs in the cupboard.
28  If there is no separation growth also does not have belongs to.
29  This item of expenditure belongs under the head of office expenses.
30  This item belongs under a different heading.