belonging
Example Sentences
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Images from an AFP photographer in Offa, in neighbouring Kwara state, showed crumbled buildings with roofs caved in and belongings scattered among the wreckage.
From Barron's
Lee, who had been at the plant since 2021, boxed up her belongings and drove home.
The law deems them res nullius, which literally means a thing belonging to nobody - so responsibility falls to individual landowners.
From BBC
"Basically all my personal belongings are on that boat - everything that I own is on that boat."
From BBC
We tolerate misallocation because we are purchasing something other than objects: reassurance, attention, belonging—a ritualized way of saying you matter to me and I am willing to incur a cost to prove it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
