belongings

Example Sentences

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Police found no drug paraphernalia, no traces of heroin in room 112, and nothing among Charmain's belongings.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

A suspect isn’t supposed to take belongings from a crime scene before the items are inspected and inventoried.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

It was still full of stranded belongings and furniture and detritus, but there were no neighbors there anymore.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Yet, he’s taken the time to study these strangers’ belongings so that he can speak personally about each one and at the end of his modest speech, he sheds a few tears.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

In the spring of 1685, Maria put most of her belongings in storage, renounced the world—including her increasingly distant husband—and bumped over rutted roads to the flat, open moors of Friesland in the northern Netherlands.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman