belonging

Example Sentences

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In fact, you could make a case for “Vineland” belonging to all 10 of the above categories.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The Maltese-flagged Kribi belonging to the French maritime transport group CMA CGM crossed the waterway to leave the Gulf on Thursday afternoon, Marine Traffic's data showed.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

In his senior year of high school, he found bugs in websites belonging to the Dutch government and reported them via a “bug bounty” program that offered hackers prizes for unearthing security flaws.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The BBC has discovered Bush also kept more than 1,000 items, including love letters, baby clothes and treasured possessions belonging to the dead and their families.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari