Clay, honey, your name does not belong on this list. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They belonged to my brother, who, in the guest bathroom, amid the fancy hand towels, stood watching as I pulled down my underpants and lifted my skirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He belonged to her, and as she nestled in his arms and her stomach rejoiced over the meal, he knew that Sekai thought she belonged to him, too. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She belonged to I don’t know how many different clubs; she was a leading light of local so-called ‘ ‘black society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was contained within the rink, where it belonged. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Advanced for belonging to a racial group ‘under-represented’ in American institutional life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hollowness in my chest grows, just like it always does whenever I go somewhere that used to belong to both me and Khalid. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She coiled the rope neatly and put it back where it belonged in the boat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t belong here, but if only for tonight, I would be allowed to enter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The observers were looking at the students’ most personal belongings, and our personal belongings contain a wealth of very telling information. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve found some old books that belonged to my father and read local histories. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Though, if this moment really belonged to me, it wouldn’t be happening. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He belonged in the jungle, just as I belonged in Washington, where I felt comfortable. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still in 8–23, but they knew, and I knew, that I didn’t belong there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Then the pleasures and sorrows of his life will belong to him again. Until then, some of them fall to me. May I request that you come to your point?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1859 The Richmond Whig said: “The miserable old traitor and murderer belongs to the gallows and the gallows will have its own.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handing the heavy stuff back to the people it belongs to. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He packs his belongings, and we start the long descent to the bottom of the gorge. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no friends, no other relatives — he didn’t belong to the library, so he’d never even got rude notes asking for books back. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where Sandy is,” I say, the words coming from my mouth like they belong to someone else, “and even if I did, I definitely wouldn’t tell you.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The entire day had belonged to them and to her story. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon all concerned would be back where they belonged, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle being fitted together; and soon it must be discovered that three of the pieces were missing... The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The guardians were straightening their papers and collecting their books and belongings. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, she thought as she snuggled into the grass, this place must belong to supernatural beings who wouldn’t allow wicked things to stay. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been concealed in a haycock, and had, at one point, spent a week hidden in a potato hole in a cabin which belonged to a family of free Negroes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other dogs followed closely, going for the face, the throat, the arms, the stomach, anything that was flesh, anything that belonged to the man who had hurt Toomer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both liked to go horseback riding in the middle of the morning, with a picnic basket and an array of canvas and leather bags containing Jean’s belongings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t bother reading any of the names on the trophies or plaques, for I knew none of them belonged to a black person. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We call it ‘memory serum,’ since it doesn’t technically just belong to the Abnegation, but yeah. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Each person is responsible for their own belongings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The table that had once belonged to Stanton—the one where the Declaration of Sentiments had been prepared—now sat in Anthony’s front parlor. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some Dauntless must volunteer to do jobs that traditionally belong to other factions. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Quite old. He used to belong to my brother.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t have, the gun, some Lobsterback will kill me. Besides, it belongs to the family, doesn’t it? I have as much right to it as anybody, don’t I?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldierwives would too, for they belonged to the ■* army of servants who would work at the birthday dinner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will Thompson confirmed that he had the original email in his possession before it was sent to the student body as a whole, sent to him from an email address belonging to Ms. Carter.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Those are my personal belongings. They will not be inspected by anyone. I do not permit it.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I want to know she’s here, that she belongs to our family one hundred percent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

‘It’s none of your business, but I don’t belong. That’s obvious. No one wants me. I’m a child of-’ ‘Oh, please.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No one in Macún died, but many lost their belongings, poultry, pigs, milk cows, vegetable gardens, kiosks for selling fried codfish fritters, and shops where rusty old cars received one more chance at the road. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to my mother. On the back it says Tiburon, South Carolina.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hand and the voice belong to a short, dark cat with a long black briefcase. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver then loaded the back of the car with all their belongings, while the grandfather and grandmother got in the car with the son and his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She always liked the rhythm of the words of the pledge—it made her feel like she belonged to something important. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now, he had scrambled over the third gate, and he was in the field next to the one that belonged to Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The second root goes to the realm of the frost giants, to the well that belongs to Mimir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you not? To what nation do you belong, then?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Except I was here, on the Elizabeths, regardless of where else I might belong. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They felt heavy, clumsy, as if they belonged to someone else. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb waiting to go off. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He radiated a kind of old energy—a melancholy that came from knowing he didn’t belong in the modern world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Numbers like seven and 31 belonged to all of these systems, quinary, decimal, and vigesimal alike. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sends students back where they belong—when he catches them. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one I hadn’t seen for a long time and that belonged to the Tommy who’d had to be barricaded inside a classroom while he kicked over desks. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of her wanted to tell Lexie, to reveal her membership in this exclusive club of the experienced, to which they both now belonged. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Divergent or not, this faction is where I belong. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It is a barely visible eight-legged creature belonging to the group that includes spiders, scorpions, and ticks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Change into something comfortable,” she told me and showed me where to put my belongings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a new law requiring all state employees to turn in a list of all the organizations they belong to. It has to be notarized and everything.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I didn’t belong anywhere, as though I lived separated from life by a glass window. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to Master Clovell, whose grave I just helped to dig. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It slipped my mind. David asked me to find you and take you to the labs. There’s something there that belonged to your mother.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

No one else I knew read things like this, stuff that belonged on grown-ups’ coffee tables. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Best of all, we were treated as if we belonged in their family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Into them once strayed old Silenus, who, intoxicated as always, had wandered off from Bacchus’ train where he belonged and lost his way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” I said, “things belong in the class to which they have been assigned.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of the best bodies belonged to the oldest American by far, a high school teacher from Indianapolis. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, there’s a line,” someone said, and when I turned toward the voice, I saw it belonged to a teenage girl with glasses. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He picks up my collection bag with all our belongings and hides it in his room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re beginning to see what’s behind the surface of things. What you say about the parts having to belong together—that was a pretty good insight.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The paper chain belonged to everybody, but he was almost the poster boy for it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He said the stand really belonged to his partner, who was out trying to locate some peanuts to sell to the winos of the quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The syntactic confusion about which grammatical person belongs in which phrase reflects our intellectual confusion about the very meaning of the concept “person.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I could sense that they felt I should be sitting with them, but also, they knew I didn’t really belong. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One night, while his friends were gathered around him, he said, “Uncle, what organization do you belong to?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individually, no member of the Party owns anything, except petty personal belongings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The belief, the calming assurance that I belonged in public, had at last taken hold. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, watching the tiny yellow light that belonged to the Virgin and listening for far-off noises from the rest of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early March 1941, we piled our belongings onto a wagon we'd scrounged for the move and said good-bye to our apartment, the last tie to our once promising life in the big city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The lodge gates were a memory, and the high-road something belonging to another time, another world. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dragged our filthy belongings from the train. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan’s house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time to process them, note where the casualties were from, or even what unit they belonged to. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“In faith, Crispin, you have a servile look. When you first came upon me, you kept your eyes upon the ground as if that was where you belonged.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Either she was not a bruja, or to their way of thinking, she had powers that belonged to the Devil himself. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if you like pinochle so much, you could start up a club like you used to belong to. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the passing crowd belonged to Fischer’s group, but near the back of the parade two of my teammates eventually appeared, Rob Hall and Yasuko Namba. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

You could see at a glance that it belonged to someone else. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The voice that rose from within, however, did not belong to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All it took was one bite, and the job belonged to her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now was the third time in all the years I had belonged to this library that I was on its third floor. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he stood up and extended his hand to Robert and Tayo, his motions were strong and unhesitating, as if they belonged to a younger man. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shoes on them belong to Mr. Daniels. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Father told me that we were living on what had once been a rich estate belonging to the Esperanza family. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t just hate the other kids for being sad, for believing that the sorrow belonged to them, somehow, when you were never theirs to begin with. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the afternoon, the staff had pulled off an extraordinary top-to-bottom flip of the residence, whisking the Bushes’ belongings out and our belongings in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the robot looked out at the island, it never even occurred to her that she might not belong there. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bottles were lined up on the same shelves in the hospital; the pumpkins were heaped in the corner of the cookhouse where they belonged. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are worse than that. You’re a traitor—an environmental traitor. These little falcons belong to North America.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Upset, her parents opened the front door and said, “If you belong to Hitler, then go to him now.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean to tell me that car belongs to some Central High white boy?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and I go upstairs and pack up my belongings, which aren’t much. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated having to admit this since such an admission proved, no doubt, the boy gang's point that she didn't belong here. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was through his collaboration with other scientists that Pascal came to have the sense of belonging to a collectivity greater than himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It sounds like it belongs to someone else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As song, the poem passes between sound and sense, never belonging for long to one realm or the other. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A man comes into the Bean Bar, walks right up to you as if you belong there, and says, “Medium coffee and a blueberry- bran. Please.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington’s half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Katie liked having the kiss belong only to her. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m a naive eighteen-year-old girl who doesn’t even belong in this bar. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Matt put the bundle of Kira’s belongings down on the floor just inside the doorway, but he wouldn’t step inside the room. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please take your belongings into the hallway, and wait with your parents for just a moment. We’ll confer and then come out to announce the next step. But you all did a sensational job!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m always trying to prove that I belong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a compliment. I’m nothing like him. I don’t belong here.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That night Esteban Trueba lay down in the iron bed that had belonged to his parents, in the old main house where he had not slept in years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had, of course, seen plenty of bare limbs before, belonging to the American and European ladies who took his tours. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was what happened when you went places you didn’t belong. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Rita returned in an old shirt and shorts that had belonged to the Mellower. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he could find out who the number belonged to, he could try to prove what the phone records seemed to show: that Reggie was texting during the accident, or right around it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But as we stand over the gravestone she will share with Grandpa, listening to Ruth blow her nose, I imagine that the stone belongs to someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I fight the impulse to reach up and touch his eyes, to check and make sure they really belong to Joon and not some sad grandfather, homeless and lying in the street. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But then I reasoned that it was addressed to me so it belonged to me so it was OK to open it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t take long for the feeling to pass, for the worry to creep back in, for me to remember that I was the fifty-thousand-dollar kid and I didn’t belong. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They're unnatural, these creatures, whatever they are, and they don’t belong here.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The FBI holds a press conference at the site, corroborating hearsay that a passport found at the crater belonged to Kamal Aziz, an Egyptian national. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was some version, I imagine, of what this woman did all day long and with practiced efficiency, telling seniors where they did and didn’t belong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But when we got outside, the three of us huddled as though we belonged together in order to keep folks who might be watching from telling on us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The car, parked at the far end of the school’s parking lot, belonged to a senior by the name of Carlson. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front passenger seat in the Wildcat belonged to Big Ma when the whole gang of us piled into the car. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You understand that Miss Nita belongs to one of the most powerful trading clans in the North?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Truth was, he knew that the tribe of old frontier lawmen to which he belonged was vanishing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I felt quite uneasy, though I had been there once or twice before; it was a private place, and everything in it belonged to two dead people. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sketches done in charcoal and pencil plastered the walls, and I wondered which ones, if any, belonged to Diego. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And whatever that fin belongs to is huge. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A smell came from her which would not have been unpleasant had it belonged to someone else. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white men belonging to the power structures in thousands of communities across America know that I’m right! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crept out of the room that no longer belonged to Jesse, and stood at the top of the stairs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You have his long arms and legs. But those eyes—those eyes definitely belong to my side of the family.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But it can be harder to agree on what exactly belongs in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The tribesman who was searching the alchemist’s belongings found a small crystal flask filled with a liquid, and a yellow glass egg that was slightly larger than a chicken’s egg. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will aid in your recovery. Human youth, I understand that you have something that belongs to me?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I brought myself to the ground, which was where I belonged. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t go outside without permission; we keep our room and belongings tidied up.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

To this day, Handel’s music is cherished with unqualified, familial warmth by all Western musicians, belonging not to one nation’s musical history but to all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The cows all belong to different cattle families, and those in the same family look alike. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You keep away from my kid sister, you degenerate. You don’t belong in this school anyway.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The voice to which he listened in his mind, and the face he watched with so much love and care, belonged not to Deborah, but to Esther. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Shears was in the taxi and he got out of the taxi and threw a big cardboard box of things belonging to Mother onto the lawn. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I missed my family and my stomach felt bad, knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We abandoned most of our belongings so we could move faster, but it didn’t do us any good. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t fight to keep the island, Crow. It doesn’t belong to me. But I’ll fight to stay on it. This,” he said, nodding at the bundle, “you can hand over quite easily.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We said we belonged to a “group,” but really each group acted like a family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, this land belonged to the fish before it belonged to us. I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp. He will come to rule again!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if people ask me what age group I belong to, I say I’m Ilkiroro. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one night when Khalid spent a long time telling me a story about a shack that belongs to Old Man Martin, down by the river in the swampland. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

If Elnora found my belongings to be missing, or Laertes reported that our father's goods had been taken, would my death be doubted and my plot discovered? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was the guitar that had belonged to my mother. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She and Pet looked down at it, and she heard a gasp slip out of her mouth, as if it belonged to someone else. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One way to fashion an outline is to jot your ideas on a page or on index cards more or less at random and then look for ones that seem to belong together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This fine instrument must have belonged to a mathematician who, unless on a journey, would have used it primarily to tell the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

People don’t dare leave the house for even five minutes, since they’re liable to come back and find all their belongings gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Finn was rustling around the campsite, grabbing his belongings. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Horses. Chickens, too. Everything belongs to me. And Ryder. Isn’t that right, boy? Of course, maybe I belong to him and he thinks those are his chickens. Hard to say.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the street, as they were running, they found an old couple whose bag of belongings had spilled out onto the ground. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The saga was over; it belonged to the Ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just inside the front cover, spidery handwriting proclaimed, “This book belongs to me, Lilian Willis.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My life in Cambridge was transformed—or rather, I was transformed into someone who believed she belonged in Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Door to door we went, calling for the men and the boys. We’d shoot them right there in front of their families. Let them see. Let them remember who they were, where they belonged.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This belonged to my papa. He used to sit outside after dinner and play it.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to Ella, and will fit her alone, whether she is a scullery maid or a duchess.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to think that if I strolled in the door with them, I must belong. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she thought the shoe belonged to a Special, but it was one of the other Smokies, helping her up the only way he could. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I showed them to their room, which Blanca and I had hoped would belong to the baby. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The coins and the bowl belonged to Minli; they had been given to her when she was a baby, and she had had them for as long as she could remember. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maggie met me at the front door wearing a Rockport High School T-shirt that looked like it had belonged to Fred’s dad and a pair of shorts that showed 98 percent of her compact legs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Twisting her damp hair away from her face, Sefia began digging her belongings out of the pack, laying them out in neat piles until her searching hands hit something flat and solid and firm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like my arm doesn’t belong to me when it goes Up. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They belonged, as Harry saw when he raised his head, to a triple-decker, violently purple bus, which had appeared out of thin air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was no Brahmin, sharing the life of the Brahmins, no ascetic belonging to the Samanas. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not! This house belongs to us!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In America do you knowl This part of the city didn’t actually belong to the Chinese, even though the beggars sat there, even though upper-class Chinese lived there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I want it in writing that after I do twenty hours’ work for you, Shiloh belongs to me.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They belong to the laundry down the street.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Go on and hide in the hills, that’s where you belong, that’s where you’ve been. Why you come on down and bother me? Now, all of a sudden. Twice in one day.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to responding to the government, I wanted to thank publicly the UDF for its fine work and to congratulate Bishop Tutu on his prize, adding that his award belonged to all the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know where she was going, only that she had to run, that she didn’t belong with people who shouted voetsek and shot at her with guns. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull on my crumpled shirt, then grab my backpack holding my few belongings and follow the flight attendant down the ramp. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course I didn’t belong, but how did she know? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was the one place he could hold to, fix upon, identify as belonging to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would never belong in Park's living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The worst body belonged to a car thief from Cicero, Illinois. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the helplessness in Lola’s voice—it was the sound she had thought belonged to a duck—and in an instant, Briony understood completely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bernabe felt like laughing, yet instead he set his face in a glower, hoping to drive this one-armed poet back into the heart of the revelry where he belonged. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most were young men who belonged to gangs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They took down their tent and loaded their belongings into the boat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then he crawled across the floor and stuffed his belongings back into his pack. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The huge stone columns lining the road that lead up to the hotel look like they belong in a fairy-tale palace. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Even the most secluded hermit in the woods was not one and alone; he also belonged to a class of people. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will they take their few belongings, or send my mother to prison and Prim to the community home, or kill them? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On one side of the room sat half a dozen women, all in white; they were much occupied with a beautiful baby, who seemed to belong to the youngest of the women. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Never had he packed all his belongings or taken his guns. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It could only have belonged to a youth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But none of that belonged to me and my mother; none of the owners were family. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he belongs to somebody around here who’ll want him back.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked down at the hawthorn wand that had once belonged to Draco Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of a woman that belonged to child bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I hope it’s the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he’s sad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother belongs to a book club and always reads the reviews in the Sunday New York Times so that she can make suggestions to her group. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down onto Sagan, at the trees that look like they belong in the yard of my micro dollhouse village. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He only looked as if he belonged; he certainly didn’t act it. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, do you belong to a union?” she asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Girls and boys with their yards and yards of ease, each group knotted tight around their belonging. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, Wilfrido’s team took down tents and booths, so I had a clear view of La Cocina—a reminder of my failed attempt to convince the neighborhood that the restaurant belonged. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Because I was promised to the Huangs’ son for marriage, my own family began treating me as if I belonged to somebody else. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That stone does not belong to us," he said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s where you belong. Don’t wander off or one of them soldiers will shoot you dead.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Be a hard, lonely life, not belonging here nor there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Because in addition to the parking lot full of vehicles with Confederate flag emblems on them, the looks coming at us from the people said vehicles belong to? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Ira said timidly, “We would not take what belonged to us all.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the level-headed James Chadwick recalled experiments at the Cavendish “so desperate, so far-fetched as to belong to the days of alchemy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He saw as many hockey games as he could, was an active tennis player, skied, swam, and belonged to a Ping-Pong club in Manhattan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he was dead, it belonged to Mammachi, their grandmother, and Rahel and Estha were on their way to Cochin to see The Sound of Music for the third time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a great big roofed room and it belonged to a worried gentleman named Horace Abbeville. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This world is the only one that matters, Jax. This is where you live. This is where you belong.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some of the policemen, rather than helping women who had been assaulted, shouted at them that they should have stayed home where they belonged. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re hiding your gift. Well, it’s not yours to hide. Whatever it is, it belongs to all of us.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Perry murmuringly remarked that in his opinion any credit due belonged to Mrs. Meier. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, you see, we have lost all our belongings,’ said Merry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

True, he belonged to that category of people whose ancestors had inhabited the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In racial science lessons, children were taught Aryans belonged to a superior master race that was intended to rule Europe. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Since I belonged to no group I learned to move seamlessly between groups. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What campus officials had implied about them—through the policy of affirmative action—the students came to believe, seizing upon the idea of belonging at once to academia and to the society of the disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you’ve made quite a little home for yourself,” he said brusquely, looking at my belongings on the night table and my suitcases on the floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d said, “I don’t even belong in this place. I been put here by mistake and it ain’t going to be long before my momma comes and gets me out.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After we packed our belongings and loaded them into the car, we headed south to Santa Maria. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told the lieutenant in charge, “That man belongs in the hospital. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

While mesmerized by the beauty of the area, I was constantly rebuked by the buildings and streets that bear the names of white imperialists who suppressed the very people whose names belonged there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s stuff inside that belonged to my dad. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when he looks at her doing her homework at the kitchen table, he thinks she belongs to someone else. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

If you take something that doesn’t belong to you, you are not just a thief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Those fireworks were ours. Everything that comes from them belongs to us.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe she didn’t belong anywhere else because she belonged here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

By background and education, she belonged to The Club class but by ability and intelligence she belonged to the readers’ class. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do know that room once belonged to Daddy’s dad, PopPop. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Where else was there to belong at this point? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That is why so many birds live near Sir Christopher Wren’s Cathedral, which also belongs to St. Paul, and that is why the Bird Woman lives there, too. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“My whole soul is in the work,” Stanton wrote to Anthony, “but my hands belong to my family.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Moving fast, he was now stuffing their few belongings into a bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me hoped they would send me away, tell me that I didn’t belong, that I should run back to the forest and the birds. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“That, and I’ve always felt that I don’t quite belong among the Dauntless. Not the way they are now, anyway.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Over the next few hours, I put them back where they belonged, wiring them into the Hab's power grid. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his curly hair and splatter of freckles could have belonged to any boy in her village. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in his life he felt as if he could belong somewhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She has the tags for a metal frame bunk bed with mattresses that appears to at one time have belonged to a military enthusiast. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Emily warily watched James shove his belongings back into his backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The boots turned out to belong not to a guest but to a man delivering the Cucaracha Voice. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

These natural cancer-causing agents are still a factor in producing malignancy; however, they are few in number and they belong to that ancient array of forces to which life has been accustomed from the beginning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wake up and find the face that belongs to it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She could afford a proper trunk for her belongings even if she had no place to take them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“All these lands belonged to Stone Hedge once. The Blackwoods stole them from us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had been identified as a stranger and felt his sense of belonging slipping away. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her belongings, all that she brought with her from the Thibodeaus’, fill a scant three shelves in the closet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t belong to any of the regular parishioners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Do you know what Native nation it belongs to? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever mentioned his stunted height and the pointed teeth that looked like they belonged to a bush rat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Klan burned down homes and businesses belonging to its political rivals, and frightened many others into leaving the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine? Certainly not. I don’t know who in blazes they belong to, nor do I much care to know.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A belief that all blacks belong in jail would be incompatible with the social consensus that we have “moved beyond” race and that race is no longer relevant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This honor belongs to all the survivors and their children and, through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identified. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I guess these moms had a whole job just taking care of their kids, which is why I didn’t belong there, otherwise my mom couldn't work. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He. I call him Pond, because an agave pond belongs to him.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Nick, “the funny thing is, even though I invented it, it’s not my word anymore. Frindle belongs to everyone now, and I guess everyone will figure out what happens together.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men speculated it must have belonged to one of the rubber gatherers who had been out exploring the area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Already I feel a sense of belonging with these people. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I am one of the family; someday this stately pile will belong to me; until then, however, I am here as one of Doctor Montague’s guests.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She belonged to the sky, and the sky belonged to her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of every continuum we belonged to, this was perhaps the most important. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Asgard the Golden belonged to the gods; glorious Valhalla to the heroes; Midgard was the battlefield for men, not the business of women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days and two nights later, as the sun was already disappearing behind the roofs, Mosca and Riccio packed the few belongings they had managed to salvage from the movie theater into Mosca’s boat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was heavy and old, and had belonged in Mr. Samowitz’s family for a whole lot longer than two hundred years. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was a recognition that the country belongs to all those who have made it their home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fetterling in the center of the room looked like it belonged in a museum. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She went directly to the booth across from us and slid into it as if it belonged to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Or how I keep waiting for someone to find out I don’t belong here at all? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to one of his fellow workers who had been able to get up on the roof of Number 3 freight house to escape the flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I thought that might help. Perhaps the savage old pirate won’t feel we’re calling to him then, I told myself, and he’ll stay where he belongs. Why are you looking at me like that?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Those swaggering boys belong to the Jungvolk, the Hitler Youth group for boys ten to fourteen. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This wight worked as an oral surgeon. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the skull he’s posing with belonged to one of his peculiar victims.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

These babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the Ceaugescu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Good work belongs in a gallery, I told him. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get out of my house and go back on the streets where you belong.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Missus Wilhelmina would say that it’s blasphemy to think something like that, when clearly the world belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At daybreak, a truck showed up for their belongings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And now it simply wasn’t there, and she wasn’t Lyra of Jordan anymore; she was a lost little girl in a strange world, belonging nowhere. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his head looked as if it didn’t belong to his body—it was small and round and topped with a fuzz of extremely short hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It must belong to one of the hackers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The committee leadership argued that women belonged as queens of the domestic domain, rather than equals who had a role in the world at large. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Listen, eidolons,” Hazel said sternly, “you do not belong here. I may not command you, but Piper does. Obey her.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I want you here by me, where you belong to be,” said Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I packed my few belongings and never looked back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But one’s got to make the effort,” she said, sententiously, “one’s got to play the game. After all, every one belongs to every one else.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They go back and forth because they’ve been living there since way before those borders existed and they have no paperwork because they don’t belong to anybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I refused to take it at first, saying it belonged with him or his children instead of me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We had trespassed too—been where we didn’t belong, and we were being punished for it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He said he went into Chatham to see if the gun belonged to anyone there but it didn’t, so he was laying claim that it was his own. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The constant cry is that you belong here, or you make yourself belong, or you must go. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I look and act like I belong they will not confront me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Because Lulabelle needed to know the truth. She needed to go back to Chicago where she belonged.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Impossible. I belong to Jenny Yen. In fact, I’m her biggest star.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Virgil’s foot hesitated before every rung, but ultimately landed quivering—where it belonged. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The vastness of the night beyond the house, the dark trees, the welcoming shadows, the cool new-mown grass—all this had been reserved, he had designated it as belonging exclusively to himself and Cecilia. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the story of Prometheus, it is uncertain whether the men he saved from destruction belonged to that race or the bronze race. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the Executioner belonged to Cannek Reed, captain of the Current of Faith. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like Pollard, he seemed to have lost the need to belong to any place in particular. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not even a pocket handkerchief. The house belongs to some white folks in Clarksville.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They acted as if they belonged, as if this was their city as well as the people’s. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A long time ago the house had belonged to a very respectable family, but they had moved into town after the waters of the river began to cut into the cliff below them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, each wrestler belongs to a stable that is typically managed by a former sumo champion, so even the rival stables have close ties. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“These are Lucy’s things, Mom. This stuff belongs to her.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tonight the guns have been banging away so much that I’ve already had to gather up my belongings four times. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They’re all stranded on a deserted island, afraid to signal for help from passing ships in the distance, because they could belong to their enemies. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It goes without saying that these fragments of her—a shoulder, beige, camel’s-hair, the side of a face, the back of a leg—belong to women who, seen whole, are not Cordelia. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It resembles a somewhat slimy, buck-toothed ogre and generally resides in attics or barns belonging to wizards, where it eats spiders and moths. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t belong here. I’m taking it back.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Families, couples, elderly men and women carrying their belongings in backpacks, suitcases, garbage bags. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the empty theater, Baba and Sunny stand up to gather their belongings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She probably belonged to someone, but the street had no one in it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“In general, I adhere to the notion that things belong in the class to which they have been assigned—which leads us to the periodic table. No, no more about the pelican.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I want to show her that I belong here. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“A boy that belongs to a minister should know how to answer a lady” ‘‘Yes, ma’am. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The train had belonged to Dad when he was a little boy, and his own father before him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out those belonged to none other than Sahil, who came to sit by me on the boulder. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe it belonged to a neighbor or maybe it was just a stray. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Keep your eyes where they belong if you want to be healthy!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

University was bigger and baggier, there was room to hide, so much room; she did not feel as though she did not belong because there were many options for belonging. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now she belonged to the spirits and would dwell in the land of her ancestors forever. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Melieses had emptied out a small storage room in the back of their apartment, and now that room belonged to Hugo. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The house belongs to a woman whose children went to Washington, D.C., and sent her the money to build it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A secure spot to sleep and to stash your belongings. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I went on, “He belonged up there as much as you and your stupid kid do.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I woke up early and packed all my belongings into a bunch of cheap nylon bags I had bought from a street vendor a few days before. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After a heated whispered discussion the driver finally pocketed the money and opened the trunk so that Habib could pull out their meager belongings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

This was a place that belonged to him alone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is how close we are. How close we’ve always been. This is where we belong. You and me.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, the house belonged to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, as Tendai joined in with the responses, clapped his hands and swayed with the others, he felt a wonderful sense of belonging. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They belonged to the woman who stayed under the bridge, with low tin walls to block the west wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am not my own, he thought, but belong body and soul to every parishioner in Phippsburg who might have a word to say about me to my father. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Why didn't you let me explain? Is it against the law to belong to the union?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh and turn on my back, pulling Shiloh down onto my chest, and for a while we both lay there, panting, enjoying the sunshine, belonging to each other. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crimson “Northwood” that blazed across his white jersey gave him a sense of pride, a sense of belonging. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I told you,” Coach murmurs, “all of you belong in fencing.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The swan had been no ordinary bird—the skin belonged to a creature bigger than Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"That one belongs to the Hound's brother," Sansa had confided when they passed the black dogs on the yellow field. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Columbus was not ‘responsible’ for the existence of America, nor Galileo for the moons of Jupiter, nor Hailey for the return of Hailey’s comet, although certainly the credit for these discoveries belongs to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Origin narratives, or “stories about how this all began,” help a group of people feel that they belong to a community with a common past and shared ideas about what is important. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alchemy and chemistry were both experimental disciplines, but the alchemist and the chemist had different forms of life and belonged to different types of community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But they belonged to a fiercely loyal Irish community that they could count on to stand together through thick and thin. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I help Margo carry her belongings—an armful of clothes, her toiletries, and the desk chair—to her car. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Either he didn’t know which bell it belonged to, or he was a really good liar. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“But you said that Luke belonged to him.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“At least if you wear it on the outside, people can see you belong,” said Robbie. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the only phone in his small southern Honduran town, which belongs to an agricultural cooperative, had been disconnected. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It felt good having the watch back where it belonged. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This new voice belonged to an old beggar sitting barefoot on the steps of a bullet-scarred building. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And you never found it, so it did not belong in your collection. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Now he was present and belonged to it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These belonged to our ancestors. Grandma thought they were too nice to throw away, so we kept them in the bottom of this chest.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the time there had been a small fortune belonging to him, buried deep under London. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Wilderness Adventures will always mean belonging to a crew, a team. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A hundred years before, Boy and Girl Scouts had belonged to different organizations, but now they were lumped together. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now Nel belonged to the town and all of its ways. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Those belong to your Uncle Webb. Oh, he’ll be so delighted.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One angry minister said that women’s rights advocates were “a hybrid species, half man and half woman, belonging to neither sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sins of the fathers belong to you and to the forest and even to the ones in iron bracelets, and here you stand, remembering their songs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1928, when I was nine, I belonged, with maximum esprit de corps, to an organization known as the Comanche Club. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But when they coincidentally find themselves rubbing shoulders despite belonging to different phrases, the reader will be derailed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If Cora didn’t belong in Hob before Ava’s maneuvering, she did now. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course we’re pretending! We don’t belong together, but it’s fun anyway.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Charles married my aunt: he belonged to my master’s father-in-law, Mr. William Hamilton. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the custom when hunting that the first shot belongs to the person who spotted the animal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried my best to act like it was a normal Sunday and go into church, but it didn’t feel right. I didn’t belong.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

People were loading up household belongings and fleeing. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They say everything is better in Paris, the food, the architecture, the romance; I found even fencing belonged on that list. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She knew just where it was, that precious set that had belonged to Deydey’s grandfather, the man who had taught him this chimookoman game. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They live apart for eternity because they don’t belong together. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looks very nice, dressed in the suit and sweater that have always belonged to him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The same danger exists for wild animals belonging to the group of ruminants, such as deer, antelope, sheep, and goats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Well, as for as I was concerned, that’s where he belonged. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Goshawks are protected by law, too. Sean Conklin, the conservation officer, said all the birds of prey are protected under the International Migratory Bird Treaty. They belong to the world.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These already belong to Grandpa. It’s like hunting lions at the zoo.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They came to his job when he was leaving and they said he didn’t belong in this country. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hands on her hips, she made sure that what belonged in the living room ended up in the living room, what belonged in the kitchen, in the kitchen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It told the world she belonged to the Dregs, that to trifle with her was to risk their vengeance. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes would have creeps in where had belongs, especially in sentences with wish or if. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the anchors that keep me from knackering my fourteen-billion-year-old atoms back out into the universe where they came from, where they belong. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Like everything else he owned, it had once belonged to someone else in his family —- in this case, his grandfather. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He belonged to a congregation similar to the one shown here, photographed in Harlem in 1929. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“You’re the one who doesn’t belong, Queen Hera. So next time, thanks .. . but no thanks.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Edward, I sent you here to work so you’d have food and warmth and a place to belong, and instead you’re playing knights with the chickens. What be you thinking?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in Andean societies viewed themselves as belonging to family lineages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing makes me hungrier than people talking about food, and my stomach is already growling like it belongs in a cage. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Grandma never mentioned that it used to belong to someone else. But then again, Grandma didn’t talk about a lot of things.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

What was it the man had said—that I belonged on the stage rather than behind it? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she could read the three thin lines of type: This object belongs to Mrs. Lorelei Granger, and she may call it any name she chooses. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn’t. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women and girls with baskets of their belongings trailed behind them, babies in lapas clinging to their backs. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he couldn't belong to something, at least something belonged to him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They carried his cot and all his belongings right out into the bushes and simply dumped them there, and then they strode back slapping their hands briskly at a job well done. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even though I've been dressed and measured and primped so many times, I still hate the feeling in these moments that my body doesn't belong to me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"I pay my dues. I belong here more than a lot of people." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a month after Roan’s death, Bill and Rita fled their home, leaving behind most of their belongings. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I said, wait a minute, you don’t belong in here, have you paid your dues? And the kid says “What is this?’ Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more, the villagers began to recognize baskets and bags belonging to their families. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my eyes still closed, I cross the room I know better than my own and drop down into the old La-Z-Boy that belonged to my dad. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It still felt strange to acknowledge it, like answering to a name that didn’t belong or slipping into clothes that weren’t quite the right size, but she made herself say it in her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mom doesn't look at me the way Susan Chang's parents look at her—she looks at me like I don't belong. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To me he belongs in the training room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Yau belong to that man now” “But I don’t want to, Papa,” she said. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It belongs to Dartmouth College, of Hanover, whose famous Outing Club has been looking after it in a commendably diligent and low-key way since the early years of this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bert and his parents packed a few belongings and then climbed into an SS army truck filled with Jewish families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We rely on them to give us access to opportunities and worlds to which we don’t belong. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Pork Chop’s house, the Soldanos’ belongings had been tossed into a pile on the street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deer will suffer, too, and the land will be poorer for the destruction of the wild things that belong to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The coat of Old Tallow was a fantastic thing, woven of various pelts, including one of lynx, one of beaver, a deer hide, and two that belonged to beloved dogs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I just woke up one day and realized it. Like I told that guy in the store, I have nothing to lose because nothing belongs to me.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She belonged here; yet she was being blown away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the entrance they were taking was the wrong one, for another, a false one, set up to foil those, like himself, who did not belong. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to my grandparents and smells like the sandalwood incense my nani used to burn day and night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I asked Margaret if she knew who that man’s voice belonged to. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That yellow daisy laid there on the table in front of me reminding me that I did not belong here. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Another soldier walked around us, examining our belongings. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She belonged to another breed of men and women, another race than I. They had guts, the women of her race. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hypothesis: If I raised enough money to pay for his treatment, then Fig could stay at home, where he belonged. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They play-fought over who got to model the coat next, neither of them realizing the gray-and-white fur belonged to a real rabbit. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know it then, but that face belonged to Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl who had a powerful imagination, who would become my friend, and who would have many peculiar things happen to her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I sat on the side of my bed and rustled through the drawer of the night table, through the tissues and reading glasses and Christian Science leaflets belonging to one of Francis’s aged female relatives. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I noticed the faded porch with its ornate woodwork and realized I was at the worn-out gingerbread house that belonged to the stony lady who always sat on the porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The voice belonged to somebody else and it was coming from someplace far away and it was telling her to wake up, wake up. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Mallory had a Talent for matching orphans to families—she felt a tug, deep in her chest, she said, when she sensed that two people truly belonged together, and she just knew. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Aside from a little food, the couple had taken nothing that belonged to the house, and furthermore, both parties had left letters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was the only Muslim on the team and one of only a handful of people of color, I always felt safe and that I was exactly where I belonged. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The boy went to his room and packed his belongings. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of Mr. Staphopoulos’s belongings were packed into his station wagon, and some things were even tied on top. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Down a lonely dirt road deep in the woods, we ate venison in a falling-down country shack belonging to some more distant cousins. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A boy who belongs—here in the world, here in his own skin. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Underneath the jewels was a stack of papers that had once belonged to the first Stanley Yelnats. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

That night belongs to just me and my coach. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's a Mormon and belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just two dollars. But I figure it belongs to you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now come to the front of the line where you belong." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And even more important, he would stay at home, where he belonged. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There wasn't anything to do with her recovered belongings once she'd sorted through them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a large collection of books belonging to Justice Strauss. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A friend of mine belonged, that blond girl who had commented on my reading. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that even though I didn’t belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the end they settled down for the night in a far-flung field belonging to a lonely farm, from which they had managed to obtain eggs and bread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The farm would still belong to us and one day we could return to it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This room was too bland to belong anywhere but in a hotel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, Keith and Jim could make out oncoming headlights, but not the big, heavy trucks the lights belonged to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs L J Weidenbach had outdone herself, aided by a club she belonged to, the Order of the Eastern Star. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gunshots, far too many to belong to a single firearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Since we were Gypsies we belonged everywhere, so we came to the land of Poland. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Many of them belonged to Greek letter organizations like Delta Sigma Theta or Alpha Kappa Alpha, which Dorothy had joined at Wilberforce. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’re halfway through the period before he notices someone who doesn’t belong. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged lady with a pointy nose and expensive trench coat scowls at me when I enter the lobby, like I don't belong there, like my existence offends her sensibilities or something. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I have a memory of it, but I can’t tell whether the memory belongs to Saturday night or to another time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of them belonged to the genus Homo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more small valuables and family keepsakes belonging to the mice and their woodland guests vanished into the thief’s sack. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Because we don’t belong in America anymore,” she said as she dusted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

You’re not supposed to see the limbs of your friends and relatives crammed into plastic bags, all tangled up together because no one knows who the limbs belong to. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I figured she must belong to the black shoe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The hands that lay upon the blanket could have belonged to a skeleton. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It does not belong to you...not to only one….How...how could you?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother belonged to a secret women’s society in Ville Rose, where the women had to question each other before entering one another’s houses. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The rest have locks on them, some very ancient indeed, belonging to officers who quit or transferred or died or who knows what. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can only put things in here that belong,” I explain. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air of collective displacement, the impermanence of life in wartime and the gauche personalities of the more recent arrivals tended to dissipate my own sense of not belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The King was dressed in a robe of velvet which had belonged to Uther the Conqueror, his father, trimmed with the beards of fourteen kings who had been vanquished in the olden days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought her mouth close to his ear and willed the blood to stop streaming out of him, to turn back, to stay inside him where it belonged. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some deep peregrine instinct told her this was where she belonged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was feeling so low she felt like she belonged under her desk. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Przemyśl belongs to Russia,” the man says, straightening a little over his gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had four passports, four driver’s licenses, three wigs, several thousand dollars in cash, and a credit card number belonging to Forrest Smith-Martin that would do for buying plane tickets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For a long time Siddhartha had lived the life of the world without belonging to it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least then there would be one part of the room where she belonged. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They could not climb the tree or pluck the fruit because it was taboo; udala belonged to the spirits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He combs through his rooms, removing every personal belonging from the space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I have ridden by here and seen those spires in the distance, but I never knew to whose house they belonged. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hastily poured some fresh water over the parakeet and dried him off on the tail of his T-shirt, which was huge and dingy and probably belonged to his father. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept coming back to a couple of things that didn’t seem to belong. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had been different when they were out-of-doors, where the world belonged to everyone and no one. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t belong to her, just to the three of us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been with Blaine for more than a year, but she did not quite belong with his friends. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The second grill belonged to the same room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

These clues are tire tracks, a Diet Coke can where it doesn’t belong, stumps and branches, and mud. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That would teach him to stick his curious nose where it didn’t belong. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I said that to the officer, though, his answer shocked me: “This isn’t Garland anymore. The land belongs to Skyline Realty and Development. And you’re driving without a license.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was hunter and stalker and slayer, and he belonged with his brothers and sisters in the deep woods, running free beneath a starry sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Anyone could belong to the committee, and C.P. decided that, uneasy as he was about the whole thing, he had committed himself to the process and might as well see it through. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s back on the mantel, where it belongs.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They stopped the plane on the runway at Kennedy Airport and removed the doctor, who was carrying some $650,000 in negotiable securities, and jewelry that had belonged to his wife. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pet stag belonging to a Latin farmer, a beautiful creature, so tame that it would run free by day, but at nightfall always come to the well-known door. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes speakers do the reverse, putting an x sound where it doesn’t belong. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t supposed to be there; he could feel the pull to go somewhere else, somewhere he belonged, now that he was what he was. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Only fear of discovery and the knowledge that we did not belong kept us from loitering. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, for the people on this ship, they “belonged” with their families, if they had them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Herbert belonged to the Hitlerjugend, or Hitler Youth, an organization of teenagers dedicated to Adolf Hitler. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seems to me that she belongs across the hall with the Distinguished Scholars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was like the regulars could tell they didn’t belong. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t belong to any of those groups. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the Rottweiler that belongs to a family across the street. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t picture him loading up to carpool with the rest of the kids from school; he didn’t belong in the same world. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t belong to you. The Fugitive Slave Law says I have a right to return this property to its owner. That’s what I aim to do.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just plain had a lot of pepper, and he’d made it clear that he thought he belonged in the first boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you go to the doctor’s house and the maid sees you’re from the lower classes she tells you go to the Dispensary where you belong. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“South Africa belongs to us once more,” Malan proclaimed in his victory speech. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I say this to my grandmother, she nods, says, Easier to stay where you belong. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Bad teeth don't belong only to witches. I have some myself." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not belong out here on this cold night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then, before putting the ashtray back where it belonged, he used the under side of his forearm to wipe off the filmy wake of ashes from the glass top of the table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

‘I will all right if he’s down there tomorrow. But you leave that bag alone. It don’t belong to that sponger any more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They’ll say I was no good, that I always belonged here—it just took a while for it all to catch up to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me see, now. Well, did he ever give you a kiss? Maybe put his hand where it didn’t belong?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Thass right, he didn’t, because he already belonged to someone else.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And while Balder was indeed beautiful, the feet she had chosen, Skadi discovered when the curtain was lifted, belonged to Njord, god of chariots, father of Frey and of Freya. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Heavenly Fathers, put ’em where they belong!” exploded Dr. Finch. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He was the thing that made you belong, after all. He made all the pieces fit together. And without him...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Store awnings and windows, sides of trucks, even neon signs, are peppered with wayward apostrophes that either don’t belong at all or are in the wrong position. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A form of name that belongs to some form of a man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands silently sifted through the nurse’s belongings. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hated myself for believing that I ever belonged here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told his son of the sad dignity that can belong to a soldier, how he is necessary in the light of all the failures of man—the penalty of our frailties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no need to pack up their belongings, as Julia and Pearl were well provided for and would not be coming back. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As the train pulled into Union Station in Los Angeles, my mother, father, and I gathered our belongings and readied to leave. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There have been many reports of the Sorcerer’s Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a mess in my head—a mess of threads belonging to Jasmine and my brother and Sandy and that tent in the backyard and all the dragonflies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the difference between being a tourist and belonging to a place. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But they might not even notice. Just act like you belong.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to an officer who was an excellent shot.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the DiAngelos’ property, yes, but only the week before it had belonged to Digger’s grandfather, and many times we had come to swim in the little cove to cool off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first I thought maybe she knew I didn’t belong there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He did not belong to the bright landscape, he should be standing on the steps of a gaunt cathedral, his cloak flung back, while a beggar at his feet scrambled for gold coins. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My body feels like it's in a dream, like it half belongs to someone else. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Things in this house aren’t yours, they belong to us, and if you take them it's stealing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t belong with the white kids either. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m a Zamora. Giving up is not in my nature. I sent a message out to five of the youth groups I belong to.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Once Duck had caught a glimpse of a hull that he insisted belonged to Urho the Unwashed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mother would say, “No, no, I do belong here,” and would try to close the screen door between them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“That white woman don’t belong here,’’ she said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writers’ has a possessive sense: it implies that the workshop belongs to the writers who attend. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed so agonized that Bigger wondered why the men did not give him his belongings. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“From that moment on,” said Alfons, “I belonged to Adolf Hitler, body and soul.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By tradition they belonged to Percy, who had killed the gorgons, but Frank couldn’t help thinking, What if I could use thfem? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The longest gun belonged to the commander of the Biafran side, a tall stern child with sharp cheekbones. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not understand why he couldn’t dream of ice, where he belonged. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

From what little is known now, it is thought to have belonged to a hadrosaur, a large duck-billed dinosaur. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Moon During the day the deck belongs to men and children. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If you belong to a group of twenty people, however, there are now 190 two-way relationships to keep track of: 19 involving yourself and 171 involving the rest of the group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biologically they do not belong to the type of organisms that cause disease in higher animals or in plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m the outsider, I don’t belong there, and yet everything is so familiar to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed my few belongings that had survived the Hydra into a sailors canvas knapsack and slung it over my shoulder. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They too gather their families and their belongings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

How hypocritical of Mia, with her stubborn privacy, to insert herself into places where she didn’t belong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I walk to class, Tats waves from the end of the hallway, where she’s ripping off posters for one or another of the many clubs she belongs to. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the time, we were living as refugees, driven from our home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because we belonged to a minority tribe, the Banyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.6: You can use a word or silly sentence to help you memorize which notes belong on the lines or spaces of a clef. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Somewhere inside was an old bronze clapper belonging to the bell of the Desert Gold, the ship that had gone down with King Fieldspar on his return from the Trove. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If you can’t muster the will to jump off, you don’t belong here. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were taking only their personal belongings and the front-room furniture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pain and aches, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Norton is so low on the scale of evolution he belongs back in the age of the Cro-Magnon man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She set the three-wheeled model back on the dresser where it belonged and arranged the wheel chip next to it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But something tells Gogol the coat belongs to the girl, and so he stops and says, “Is that yours?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I was putting on my new army shorts, a soldier took my old pants and threw them into a blazing fire that had been set to burn our old belongings. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the men — over 80 percent — belonged to just one group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they’re so big, and so obviously belong to this water world—where I do not—that I stop moving, not wanting to attract their attention. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had watched Hassan and Ali load their belongings into the trunk of my father’s car. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we should find out how the experts decide whether or not the statue belongs to Michelangelo. That will be better than finding out about Michelangelo himself,” Jamie said. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That nest belongs to the eagles, not to any of them, and certainly not Frank. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had neither element in my personality, so I hefted the burden of pregnancy at sixteen onto my own shoulders where it belonged. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The court date is just at the end of March and, of course, the state will decide the baby belongs with you.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had not taken long for Taisin to pack up her belongings. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why a lot of my clothes are too big for me, ’cause they belonged to someone else first. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She wrote, “It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was the one who belonged on Bull Street, not my mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slimy white hand had gripped his wrist, and the creature to whom it belonged was pulling him, slowly, backward across the rock. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s not mine. I’m delivering it to my nurse on board. It belongs to her.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Does he know to whom these items belonged? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You don’t need to be a genius to calculate that I don’t belong here. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This belonged to an artist couple named Whitney. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when you know you don’t belong there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the pile of belongings Boori Ma kept only her broom. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Your coat belongs on the far left, followed by the shirts and pants. Not vice versa,” he said as he opened the drawers of Ben’s bureau. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that not so, Amala? Does a boy belong in the kitchen?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled the sheet off the bed and fumbled one-handed with their belongings. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The loudspeaker voice belonged to a slender, bearded young man who wore a black turban. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her parents had given her a car for graduation, so she was going to fill it with her belongings and drive across the country to her new school. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And there were no lean, mean, powerful broncos, only a half-dozen pint-sized Shetland ponies, two of which, Orangutan and Sunflower, belonged to Charley and Linda Bloom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken Will Hamilton’s word to make the bank believe that the money belonged to Cal, that it was honesdy come by, and that he could do what he wanted to with it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was good news that the ship did not belong to the Aleuts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let them laugh if they wanted to; he would not move until his heart left from under his chin and went back down into his chest where it belonged. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not family, and I don't belong here. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing here belongs to us, just whoever pays the rent. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Without her, I tossed and turned until my uncle nudged me with his foot and said, “Get your belongings and follow me.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. That’s why I don’t like it. You have to come back. You belong here.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was around but Snowbell, the white cat belonging to Mrs. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was not something that belonged in a museum, but my mom kept it on our coffee table for so long that it dried and crumbled. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For by rendering feelings in words that a stranger can understand—words that belong to the public, this Other—the young diarist no longer need feel ah alone or eccentric. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will certainly be clear to what household I belong. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Can hear Daddy’s voice in my head saying looking at something don’t belong to you is same as stealing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The room, hallway, and bathroom don’t belong to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No matter how badly the leaders have warped the Dauntless ideals, those ideals can still belong to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This is where the real artists belong, like Ivy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why? Why me? What would I do, just tag along? I’m not like you and Widget, I can’t do anything special. I don’t belong in the circus.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She wore colorful, billowy clothes and served meals at a massive table in the dining room, hosting anyone who turned up, mostly people who belonged to what she called “the movement.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ragear could tell by its scent that it had once belonged to Shadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“All you people crowding around the door, go back where you belong,” said Mr. Greenbaum. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was relieved that I hadn’t disappointed the people who’d been rooting for me, but in an odd way, this win felt like it belonged more to them than it did to me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Goodness,” she gasped, “do all these belong to you, child? You can just set them there, I suppose, and I’ll ask my husband about them. Can I offer you and your men some breakfast, sir?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Emotionally disturbed patients here? Don’t they belong in psychiatric hospitals?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other students belonged in a library; I belonged in a crane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to a nice little old lady who never drove it over forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like I have said to you, she has been assigned to our bedroom. So the things in there belong to her. Not to Jews.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long to collect my belongings. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, Greenberg recognized that all Niger-Congo languages of subequatorial Africa belong to a single language subgroup termed Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the privacy of his mind, that promise felt like it belonged to someone else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The voice belonged to a boy, and only one boy would be foolish enough to call her name in the same woods that held a dragon and a murderous Varangian. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When the day of my repatriation finally came, I packed my few belongings in a plastic bag. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bono was there rolling his belongings into a bundle, but his actions were slow and hesitant. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You see, Ugwu? A boy does not belong in the kitchen.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, the medium recovered enough to sit up, point at the children and shout, “Those ones! They do not belong. Throw all three out!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ll just be on our way, then, ma’am,” Polly said as she motioned to the others to gather their belongings to leave. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed down remorsefully and saw that the orderly forced upon him by Colonel Korn to keep his tent clean and attend to nis belongings had neglected to shine his shoes again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Like, you belong here as much as I belong here and you’ll get no trouble from me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He had quarreled with his father and climbed out on a winter night with a sack of his own belongings, and some he had stolen, tied to his back. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nobody looking at these tents would guess they belonged to wizards, Harry thought, but the trouble was that once Bill, Charlie, and Percy arrived, they would be a party of ten. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. But I do know the Catholics would protect you if they thought you belonged to them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the nervous mustache that did not belong to his face, the way he jerked his shoulder, the Adam’s apple on his thin neck, the bagginess of his trousers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Though the hair helps, too, for looking like we don’t belong in a black-and-white circus.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“They belonged to the people of America and of Indochina, who had paid for them with their blood.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he knew a second thing that he did not know how to live with: neither of them belonged to him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arson, too, was a growing problem, as blacks, still unable to obtain justice in the white man’s courts, torched property belonging to their victimizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Set back on the land were pens for cattle, sheep and hogs; and around and about were sheds and houses belonging to the men who worked the docks and shipped the livestock. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wanted to make sure I came today," I babble pleasantly, trying to think of an excuse that will convince her I belong in this house. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t look much like he belonged at the table with the royal family, either. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And so two days later, Georgie and I hid in the woods and watched Mother and Daddy load their belongings, and ours, into a rental truck. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So little is known about Deganawidah’s life that archaeologists disagree about whether he actually walked the earth or belongs entirely to the realm of legend. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was one great big room, and then there was a little room that belonged to Uncle George, and there was another room for the aunts, Aunt Docia and Aunt Ruby. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Father’s carriage disappeared from view, Mum Olga swallowed her tears and directed a manservant to transfer my belongings to a room in the servants’ wing. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

That problem also derailed domestication of North American bighorn sheep, which belong to the same genus as Asiatic mouflon sheep, ancestor of our domestic sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look flushed, like a rosy-cheeked summer girl who belongs in the sun. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pencil wouldn’t obey her, and she became so angry she wanted to snap it in two—except that it belonged to Baba Joseph. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you see them carrying her, what will you do? She will belong to them and not you.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Whom the whiskers had belonged to initially—what unsavory animal—was a question that Edward could not bear to consider for too long. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Reading the label we saw that it belonged to another Chinese family, Crazy Mary’s family. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe perfect was just another word for belonging. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like an abandoned foal that nestles against cows in the barnyard, maybe I just need to feel the warmth of belonging. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’s really getting into it, pulling at his chin and nodding his head up and down like it belongs on the back window ledge of somebody’s car. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as though we were all sworn to the same secret covenant, so secret we don’t even know what we belong to. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

While that seems like an interesting and innocent endeavor, the land they surveyed belonged to Indigenous peoples, who had not agreed to the Doctrine of Discovery. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Those planes belong to the syndicate, and everybody has a share. Confiscate? How can you possibly confiscate your own private property? Confiscate, indeed! I’ve never heard anything so depraved in my whole life.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As the past, present, and future became one, the droplets on Cole’s cheeks dripped to the ground, melting into the landscape to which they belonged. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I hug the blanket to my chest and then sniff it a few more times before laying it at the foot of the bed where it belongs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

That plan was gone now, pages that belonged to a story he’d never write. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just like June was June’s month and May belonged to May. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had become ... so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest things belonging to them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she has our hearts in her keeping. Now we belong to the dark and to the empty places. The light would shrivel us, and burn.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They thought his answer was amusing, and they allowed the boy and the alchemist to proceed with all of their belongings. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just, I don’t know, I just didn’t belong. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He belonged to a big club composed of people who collected things like that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was I always trespassing into places I didn’t belong? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Or met Skinchangers and wargs belonged in Old Nan's stories, not in the world he had lived in all his life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A few of the dogs belonged to the residents, but most of them had no owners. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute, you don’t have to work for him. You’re not supposed to belong to him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The road no longer belonged to the cows. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bet it belonged to another dog before him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s calm, too calm, yellow fluttering birds that don’t belong in this life-bucking tempest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The logic that belonged to the real world had remained behind, like luggage on a dock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The reference to Descartes is simply there to put Hooke in his place by suggesting that the priority Hooke claims actually belongs to Descartes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I find I do not belong here any more, it is a foreign world. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw thought, I didn't want to come, I didn't want to come, it is one more strange house in which we do not properly belong. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“The officer was simply returning your father’s belongings,” Mom said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I found Abraham at a camp for displaced persons on the mainland. He was a poor, tortured boy, but so strong. I knew at once that he belonged with us.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the steward said we belonged to our lord as well. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I do belong there, but only according to my age and the law.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘We are sorry, but we belong with the creatures who have been broken and thrown away.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For she was not a native and she didn’t rightly belong here. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She belongs to me, you know. I dreamt it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He belonged to Troop C because the armory had a basketball court. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other white women didn’t think the African American women belonged in the parade at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw that the hand belonged to the quiet man in the dark topcoat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you don’t understand how these things work. The harbors belong to the city, and we have as much right to them as anyone. We’ve all got a living to make.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Many natives, seeking to categorize the newcomers, were open to the possibility that they might belong to the realm of the supernatural. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our treasure...which might belong to someone else? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Money ain’t everything, chile. And ain’t none of his money belong to her—she got ’bout as much chance to use his money as you do.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Equal human beings, or goods that belonged to their owners? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were not arts, and it would have been incomprehensible to claim then, as we do now, that philosophy belongs with the arts, not the sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the end she decided on her mother’s studio, because the room was large and Pet looked as if it belonged in there, as much as it could belong anywhere in this world. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

You and Kutti led the way, and we arrived at our bridge to find it looking like a battlefield, with our belongings scattered everywhere. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Taken by surprise—for I was sure I hadn’t been told I belonged there—I made no protest but came down the steps. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I and my belongings are lifted into Port Authority Bus Terminal. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I back up far enough to see who the foot belongs to. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To all his pleas she made the same answer, “I belong to him. Wherever he is I keep my love for him.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was littered with belongings: brass beds, chairs, kitchen tables, pots and pans, cribs, and piles of clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some things looked brand-new, like the flat-screen TV, and some things looked like they belonged in a museum. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Julia was wearing a silk nightgown, and I followed her into the dining room while wondering if that same nightgown had belonged to my dead grandmother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The music was like a memory of family, of friendship and warm belonging. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If they’ve got gold badges, that moonstone badge really does belong to me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Because Harry knew who that screaming voice belonged to now. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I am here to collect my belongings,” I said. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because for the first time, in as long as he could remember, Dell belonged to something. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But at night when the pigeons slept on the roofs and the people lay in their hotel beds, the square belonged to the horses and the winged lion that stood among the stars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It irritated him: her assuming that everything belonged to Master, her taking command of his kitchen, her ignoring his perfect jollof rice and chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, this isn’t your computer. It belongs to everyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like he wants the name to only belong to him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That must be why it’s so strange that I could easily belong in three of them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Agamemnon, who led the Greeks against Troy, belonged to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise was like a wave that kept getting bigger: two hundred seventh graders, all looking for someplace they belonged. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He gathered up his few belongings and walked away. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Every time I see this photo, I think I really don’t belong here. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Muhammad: To God we belong and to Him we return. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Grendel had wanted to take him for his own, to bear him off to where he belonged, to join the baleful company of the fen; but he, Unferth, had held back through fear. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Either you belong in grade six, classroom three, or you belong elsewhere.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Norman is back in the story, where he belongs, and I don’t think he would mind that his real name appears. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land, then the main means of production, belonged to the whole tribe and there was no individual ownership whatsoever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I deposit Mango on my blanket, where he belongs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The awful visitors were the women who belonged to the Animal Fanciers’ Society. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But once, it was the only thing I ever owned that hadn’t belonged to some other Swieteck before me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why would the businessmen take Congo’s diamonds away? And what are Americans doing down there anyhow? I thought the Congo belonged to Belgium. I mean before.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to me then that he had never belonged in Stamps, and less to the slow-moving, slow-thinking Johnson family. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it belongs to Boggs, Gale’s going to pay for it dearly later on. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Jus is pretty sure they all belong to a gang called the Black Jihad run by a crazy older dude named Martel Montgomery. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And the sound that came from her mouth belonged to something wearing a pelt instead of a coat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many of my people today are languishing in refugee camps, belonging to no country, always in limbo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

An example of a carcinogen belonging to the group of new, organic pesticides is a chemical widely used against mites and ticks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s Granny’s birthday. She’s about eighty years old and belongs to the Portuguese tribe. How many people are there like that on the city’s computer?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reagan portrayed the criminal as “a staring face—a face that belongs to a frightening reality of our time: the face of the human predator.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Granny always said that was the secret to her flaky crust. How did you...? Miss Mallory shrugged. “I just had a feeling it might belong with you.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We shaded our faces green with a broken eye shadow that belonged to Dora’s mother, and my mother gave us two burlap sacks that had once contained basmati rice, for collecting candy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They work dirt cheap and don’t, Auntie Buzz says with a happy smile, belong to a union. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl grew up in a traditional village. She belongs to us, not the Catholics.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

YouJill the plastic bags with your belongings, one at a time. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“This face,” she said, “could belong to someone who can read. And has curls. And could have a lover before nightfall. And this is me, Beetle.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I plan to tell your mama that you all were snoopin' around in my business. Puttin’ your nose where it don’t belong.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And I want to stand among them and somehow believe that I still belong. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And me, I always felt that I didn’t belong anywhere. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Yes, there it was: the niggling, tickling feeling of belonging. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now he’s laid out on the sailboat of the gentle sea, smiling and calm, while I write at the blond wood table that belonged to my grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, whether they ultimately rowed as the varsity or the JV, they belonged entirely to Ulbrickson. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The voice belongs to a man, speaking in giddy Dutch with a heavy German accent. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she felt like Crispin Crispian in that old children’s book by Margaret Wise Brown, the dog who belonged to himself. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They belong to an old man with a white beard, blinking into the light. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While I heard the words, knew they had meaning, even knew the meanings that belonged to them, I couldn’t pull any sense from them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She attended the prayer meeting for Yule May that Aibileen hosted weeks ago, but she belongs to a different church. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You belong here, you know that?” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She spoke them too rigidly, with a demeanor that belonged to someone else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The young dog belonged, in every sense of the word, heart and soul to their father, who had trained him since puppyhood for hunting. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The others all belonged to this friend of mine. I was only borrowing them.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sailors had set him ashore just as he was, ranged his belongings beside him, and departed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You belong here, I told myself firmly as I walked between the small tents at the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now, Howard Avenue is just a few blocks from where I live, so I could pretend I belonged to the Howard Avenue Civic League or some other fictitious philanthropy. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Groups of fleeing people, carrying their belongings in knotted blankets, waited on the roadsides and begged for rides. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He knows where he belongs, and as far as I know, he always has. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They all belonged to a girl who was short, slight, and, as Shin remembers, exceptionally pretty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Word has it,” Marie-Laure overhears one taxidermist telling another, “the stone is from Japan, it’s very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His stomach tightened and rolled and made noise as he looked at the eggs, as if his stomach belonged to somebody else or had seen die eggs with its own eyes and was demanding food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t afford many new books, but we belonged to the local library. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she’d supposed it had belonged to a maid, but at some point she came to understand that it had been for Isagol’s consorts, paramours, whatever you chose to call them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I really didn’t belong here.I folded my arm across my eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was black and opaque, as usual, but she felt newly aware of it, and now she wondered how she had ever not known that it once belonged to Elowen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This is a very nice house you’ve got here. Too nice to belong to a lowly police officer. Your husband had money. So I’m sure there’s a car parked somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

This was truly the equipment which had belonged personally to Martin the Warrior of Redwall Abbey! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the overlap of notes belonging to closely related keys made moving from one key to another easy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One day word came that there was a vacant shack on Thirteenth Avenue, and finally, after months of anxiety, we packed our meager belongings and left for our new home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second backpack joins mine on the steps, and I know who it belongs to without looking up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The scientists analyzed over 700 samples, each containing an average of over 500 identifiable seeds belonging to over 70 plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was the power of the pearls, I realized—What belongs to the sea will always return to the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And they smile and look at me with eyes that know we belong to the same club. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

At first I worried that they might belong to somebody, but then I remembered that the farm is ours, so these flowers must belong to us too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He kept the Sabbath on Saturday, observed Passover and other important Jewish holidays, and belonged to a small neighborhood congregation, whose members called themselves Hebrews or Israelites. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Others had tried to steal the credit for the geoheliocentric system from him but, properly, it belonged to him alone. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a moment’s silence, he added: “Each of us will be allowed to bring his personal belongings. A backpack, some food, a few items of clothing. Nothing else.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night ten greyhounds that belonged to the Frenchman across the street wailed as if the world were coming to an end. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when they go through my belongings, they’ll probably toss it away thinking a freshman crush has no relevance. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This time I really did expect Mr. Ferris to be waiting for Luke and me after school with our belongings in plastic bags. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like minute scouts inspecting potential battle zones, leukocytes constantly scan cell walls for the little bits of stuff that HLAs have carried there, trying to spot anything that doesn’t belong. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You used the end of the fire poker to unlock it, and it opened onto a secret stairway that led to Sefia’s basement room, just a small place for her bed and belongings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It belonged to a scraggly guy with sunken cheeks who had been hanging around North Third Street recently. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, come in. I don’t mean to leave you standing on the porch like you was trying to sell me something. You belong here now.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We begin the slow, painful walk to the ships, him with his cane and me carrying a sack of his belongings. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Whoever that voice belongs to, she is pulling the strings; she is responsible for Eric’s leadership position; she is the one who wants me dead. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“My mom isn’t going to let anyone walk out of this house with anything that belonged to Fred. Not yet. And not even you,” she said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

If you turn to the same page of this book—and every copy of the book that will be printed from here on out you will see that the victory now belongs to Drew. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A fraternal lodge to which he had belonged gave her a cemetery plot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he interrupted me with this long lecture about how this money belonged to everybody, not just me, and how I had to be responsible. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Our feet are beginning to belong in two different worlds—Greenville and New York. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Setanta had a stick and ball and one day he hit the ball and it went into the mouth of a big dog that belonged to Culain and choked him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Police protection was provided for blacks removing their belongings from damaged buildings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All have this in common: they are biological solutions, based on understanding of the living organisms they seek to control, and of the whole fabric of life to which these organisms belong. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Matt thought El Patron would have a heart attack if anyone told him to give away his belongings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms were occupied by sleeping old men—he peeked carefully into each one—but most were empty, rooms that belonged to members of the order still enjoying the festivities. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If during the year one of us coveted something that belonged to another, we might get the temporary loan of that item for January of the new year. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The postmark is from New York, but he does not recognize the signature as belonging to any of the rêveurs he has met in passing in that or any other city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Give us—give us the nicest summer day you can remember! You can’t say that’s hard, since it belongs to you!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you don’t have her anymore, she still belonged to you two once. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Papa Will came home one evening to pack all of his belongings. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stanton had joined the temperance organization out of her allegiance to Anthony; her heart belonged to the suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because how can we be a family if we don’t all belong to the same country? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Jonas sat wrapped in a robe belonging to The Giver, the long robe that only Elders wore. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered all his second thoughts about where he belonged. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe, if I go to sleep, I will wake up back in District 12, where I belong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It must have belonged to one of Capricorn’s men. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I, who belonged to a religion which taught that simply to be angry with another made one liable to the judgment of God and that to hate was the equivalent of murder. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure of much anymore, but I was sure I belonged with her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I look at a bright blue sky and where it touches the ocean, and I hear a voice tell me that I don’t belong anywhere. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I look at the trees that don’t belong, brought here through no fault of their own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

BREN: So, Arturo, perchance does that hook of Cuban rapper poems belong to a special someone who popped into your life the other day after so many years apart? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to know who those bodies belonged to. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They move with precision and silence, grabbing every belonging and disappearing up the ladder without disturbing the chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know the truth, that he belongs to himself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All these names, each belonging to a young person, a young person who might be lying dead somewhere right now, or worse...“Aha!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She had been born here, bred here, she knew it all, she belonged here more than I should ever do. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The nudgings and jerks and winks of the bigger children surely didn’t belong in a church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks so sad and thin, wearing a black coat that belonged to Tía Laura that seems too big on her, even though she’s the same size as my aunt, or used to be. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“But...I don’t understand. Even if he took payment in, uh, whatever, how does that make everything belong to the bank?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They are past, they belong to another world that is gone from us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her dizzy to think that her father didn’t actually belong here in Japan, and as a matter of fact, maybe her parents belonged nowhere in the world, not here and not there. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any belongings, just a rotten potato in my pocket that I gnawed on when no one was looking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If it’s loaded,” he explained sorrowfully, shoving the gun carefully back into its holster, “it can go off. Hang it back on the wall where it belongs, Mr. Cordova. Please, huh? Nobody wants violence.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the start, she spotted that twenty-three of the messages belonged in a separate group. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had examined the carts and belongings, evaluating the items and their potential owners to determine if it was safe to enter. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So, whatever money we earn belongs to all of us, equally, right?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s something else. Something that belongs with the thread. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was as though by keeping this room impersonal, by not importing her intimate belongings but leaving them mingled with those of her husband, she lessened the offense of not sharing his quarters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was just the water dripping out of her belongings, it was just a shadow falling across the canvas. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bod had never seen Silas’s bag before, he had not even known that Silas had a bag, but it was the sort of bag that could only have belonged to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The next house belonged to my favorite client of Ma’s. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But every one belongs to every one else,” he concluded, citing the hypnoptedic proverb. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were a couple of old things that belonged to Mr. Donnelly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carts had been heaped with our belongings; my mother had been alive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Five deaf students walked down the street, and I tried to determine which two did not belong. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I could feel the tension in my shoulders release as an immediate sense of belonging settled over me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My father belonged to a loosely knit group of black families in the neighbourhood to whom tribal traditions were a way of life, and who sought to bring up their offspring according to its laws. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand and begin to gather our belongings. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It was something in your face. I thought I’d take a chance. I’m good at spotting people who don’t belong. As soon as I saw you I knew you were against them.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Pale and slim, Forrest belonged to the category of scrawny men who are uncomfortable when women are more muscular than they are. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gogol does not know to whom these children belong—half the guests are people his mother has befriended in recent years, people who were at his wedding but whom he does not recognize. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The names scrolled in tidy columns through her mind, each group belonging to a different chapter in her life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or we stay in cabins belonging to other people or to the government, or we stay in abandoned logging camps, or we pitch two tents, one for sleeping and one for supplies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The locks on her suitcase opened with two satisfying clicks; she enjoyed again how neatly her belongings fitted together, clean against the green lining. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the music that belonged to her family was going to last forever. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I walk from picture to picture, certificate to certificate, looking for anything belonging to my family. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I do. I do belong in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could not make out whom they belonged to. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

OPPOSITE: An image of one of the “curiosity cabinets” Maria visited in Amsterdam, belonging to the Dutch East Indies merchant Livinus Vincent. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe land shouldn’t belong to people at all. Or maybe there should be limits on what they can own.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The message seemed often to get telegraphed, if never said directly: These people don't belong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We do have the unsavories nowadays, but they do little more than drop occasional pieces of litter and move shop items to places they don’t belong. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Evidently this belonged to the couple, for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might not understand how appallingly different he was, but they knew he didn’t belong. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, it is claimed that the doctrine of signs/signatures belongs to ‘low’ disciplines such as medicine and alchemy; no mention is made of the law or theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All my belongings fit into two plastic milk crates and a garbage bag. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even belong in my own body—especially in my own body. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Those private boats belong to rich people and tourists.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended that it belonged to us: him, Rose, and me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In shock, I rushed to grab all of my belongings. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They call me Charity Case and Free Lunch and remind me every chance they get that kids like me don’t belong here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Who could ever again deny he belonged here? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

No suitcases, no extra clothes, no food, no personal belongings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She fished in her purse and came out with the camera belonging to Roy’s mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice sounds far away, as if it belongs to somebody else. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As they trudged toward the heart of Tartarus, he kept glancing down at his body, wondering how it could belong to him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were only a few belongings I decided to leave behind, and they became the only signs that I’d ever lived here. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The social role of helping the poor and migrants belongs to politicians. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

However, the Muslim understanding of that sound is that it is really heightened speech or recitation rather than music, and belongs in a separate category. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It felt like a confession, as though I had stolen something that now belonged to Fred’s family. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She could turn a pillowcase into a skirt and make it look like it belonged in a magazine. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

‘Salim,’ Rashid said, ‘is Salim. He doesn’t belong to either of us.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have done my utmost to have him thrown out of Hogwarts, where I believe he scarcely belongs, but kill him, or allow him to be killed in front of me? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“In my village all women be mothers to all the children. Maybe Tidbit belong to both of us,” Amari said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the process of digging a trench along the side yard of a house that belonged to the mayor of Austin, a woman with the unusual name of Cherry Lane. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping his eyes are actually closed because the word hoisting and my polyester work dress do not belong in the same sentence. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked behind him and saw that the slope on which he was standing belonged to a range of far higher mountains. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“True. But they were all searching for belonging. She was, too. Not that it’s an excuse to have possibly mind-blowing sex with a French dude...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I watched uncomfortably as he and Hand Clap each grabbed a box of our belongings and walked into the alley between the iron fence of the house and the tenement next door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the adder has something that belongs to our Abbey, an ancient sword, sir,” Matthias replied. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A man could not always be where he belonged, though. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The day he was to put in the new floor, Papi dragged our belongings out to the yard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He paused, then looked closely at the hands of the man who sat before him, and said, “Clean your fingernails, Colonel. They look like they belong to an enlisted man. That’s all.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the men lowered over the side the seven small leather trunks that held all of Kit’s belongings and piled them, one beside the other, on the wet planking. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The only human trace left by that voracious blast was a glove belonging to Patricia Brown in an automobile smothered in wild pansies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The duvet is in a studio that belongs to my first husband, Jon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adams had somehow managed to miss the political rewards due him and catch the criticism that properly belonged to others. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No, he later explained, because the Pentagon Papers did not really belong to Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For it was darkness itself that had awaited him, the unnamed thing, the being that did not belong in the world, the shadow he had loosed or made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The confession didn’t feel like it belonged to me anymore, as though in shouldering this possession, I had exchanged some of Yakov’s past for my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Coach murmurs, “Fencing has aristocratic roots. But you belong here. We all do.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She returned to the United States feeling like there was nowhere she truly belonged, but that doesn't mean she and my dad don't still mourn the loss of another one of our Iranian habits. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Merry, to whom the others belonged, had not, in fact, given them any such names, but they answered to the new names that Tom had given them for the rest of their lives. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Max stares at his hands like they don’t belong to him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As we drive out to the D.C. suburbs, I’m still stuck on the fact that I’m sitting in the front seat of a car that belongs to a boy I can’t stand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At first I figured that it was the television, but no, one voice belonged to Myron. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But to call me a guest in the only place I ever belonged—the word cut like a jagged stone against my heart. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I looked like I belonged on the hills of Switzerland with milk pails. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Years later, I’d fall in love with a guy who, like Suzanne, stored his belongings in heaps and felt no compunction, really ever, to fold his clothes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He made her feel as though the world belonged to them—as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Why did you give away all your belongings?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She felt a need to explain to the woman that Charlie belonged to her, but she couldn’t figure out how. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That egg is Potter’s egg. That piece of parchment belongs to Potter. I have seen it before, I recognize it! Potter is here! Potter, in his Invisibility Cloak!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to “belong,” what could the unattractive female do? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran out the door, along the gallery past Mother’s room, through the rock garden into the next court which belonged to Third Uncle. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Almost like I didn’t really belong in this world. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They look as if they belong to the same species, and yet they hate each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Someone like me did not belong at Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We never butchered or sold a hog that didn’t belong to us or marked a pig following a sow that didn’t wear our mark. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pots and knives, the tent and hatchet, the collapsible brass spyglass, all of Nin’s belongings came clattering out in a burst of noise. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was signed with lots of fancy titles that belonged to the colonel and the commandant, and the King Himself. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, I would go out and play soccer with boys who did not belong to gangs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please . . . she said. “You took something that belonged to me,” Buddy Ray said, looking directly at me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“If we ever get through this day, it will be a miracle. What say you, Shady? Still interested in buying the aforementioned land belonging to the late Widow Cane?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She returned to the “prison”—her term for Riverbank—only to collect her belongings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Whom do you think this box belongs to?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I told her they didn’t belong to me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This house belonged in Hollywood, not central Indiana. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Some-how, Sergeant Holmes formed an idea of where you belonged and then tended to send you there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t belong to her mother, didn’t belong to her father, didn’t belong with her siblings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Like a wound, or a cancer, or just something that doesn’t belong there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘It does not belong to either of us,’ said Aragorn; ‘but it has been ordained that you should hold it for a while.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By an unwritten agreement, the roof belonged to the people who lived on the top floor as the yard belonged to the people who lived on the first floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They treated me like I was an equal, like I belonged with them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is almost dark now, so I see only shadows of buildings against a dark blue sky, and a few glowing lights near the lake that must belong to Erudite headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That bird belongs back in the book it was stolen from.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This community belonged to Poland, and the Polish nobles, who were Catholics, treated the Cossacks who lived there with cruelty and contempt. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Feral horses, belonging to my grandfather, ran wild over thick banks of water hemlock, and there were more than a few rattlesnakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Post Office Box 34 is the only place in the world that belongs to me. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dropped in the struggle with Aaron, of no use or interest to him and just left on the ground like it don’t belong to no one, like it don’t matter that it’s Viola’s. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were things that had belonged to Lina’s parents, her grandparents, and even their grandparents—old, broken, cracked, threadbare things that had been patched and repaired dozens or hundreds of times. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The exact spot on the bridge table the gold vase belonged. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard’s friend George Giannini, owner of a string of fine racehorses, thought he knew where Howard belonged. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids know I’m in this class because I’m from another country, not because I really belong there. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I felt that somehow I belonged here, I really did, but I could have been in the Congo for how unfamiliar it felt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know where I belong anymore. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Where you can remember the Nelsons. This belongs to you, Lou.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Du Bois got it right a century ago: “the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She sat by the window—somebody had stuck a blob of chewed gum on the pane—and spent long minutes looking again at the Social Security card and driver’s license that belonged to Ngozi Okonkwo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am going to tell you a story about a girl who didn’t want to belong. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Ashima is reluctant to introduce such items into her home, ashamed at the thought of buying what had originally belonged to strangers, American strangers at that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She seems to belong on that beach with those people more than she belongs stuck here in this room with me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your life belongs to me, her voice thundered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Their family and friends treat us like we belong just as much as they do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That,” she said, “depends on the need. But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At your side, I belong at your side . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Had it really once belonged to his father? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Big Schoolboy also belonged to the Catholic Church, as did most of the members of our family now, especially those of us who had been to mission schools. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faint though it was, Taran recognized it as belonging to the bard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

All of my belongings had been dumped into the new cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside their large courtyard, the belongings had been thrown into a pile and destroyed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It belonged to little things with green and black bodies that knew their way through the tall grass. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged to no one and had nothing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A few cars and trucks were parked out front, probably belonging to people who cut church and came here straight from Sunday school. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was lost in the fog of the Bureau, in the promise of belonging. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Still moving quickly, and panting for breath, the young mouse gasped, “Matthias mouse, Warrior of Redwall Abbey. The medal belongs to my friend Basil Stag Hare. He sends his compliments, Cap’n, sir.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had a feeling she would have been crushed to be excluded completely, and this gave her a way to stick around and still feel like she belonged. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged out there in the night, the fatal darkness, the imperishable black. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds in the kitchen belonged to the eggs frying on the stove and Nana whistling the Bunker theme song. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

That stage, however, belonged to the early days of the Shire, and hobbit-building had long since been altered, improved by devices, learned from Dwarves, or discovered by themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room was familiar; it had belonged to me since I was born. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All day long a terrible thought had kept crossing her mind: Maybe the Smoke was where she really belonged, but she’d lost her chance by going there as a spy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The call comes from downstairs, and since the voice is half whispering, it's hard to make out who it belongs to. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Flowers didn’t belong to our church, nor was she Momma’s familiar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm being worked by the Jews of the Przemyśl ghetto once belonged to a Jew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘Then all this strange land belongs to him?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His lower body lay like lead, as though it belonged to someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was dissimulating, like some of the teachers at the college, who, to avoid trouble when driving through the small surrounding towns, wore chauffeur caps and pretended that their cars belonged to white men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He also understood its essential importance in giving his family a feeling of place and belonging in a new town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as her sons didn’t get too serious about any one girl, they belonged to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were wedged in everywhere, sitting on their belongings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I like to pay my debts, so I know you will allow ‘the old gentleman’ to send you something which once belonged to the little grand daughter he lost. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides my tribe, I also belong to a clan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We packed our belongings and left Santa Maria in September, the week school started. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In my yellow cell I filled a brown cardboard suitcase with my belongings and carried it down to the discharge officer's station for my final inspection. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I find myself now in the attic room of this small cottage belonging to Mr and Mrs Taylor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because they used to belong to the states. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Also among the souvenirs there was a large bone hairpin that had belonged to his mother. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We checked a few times, but we all had our pants on, so they must have belonged to the lady who left just before we came in. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us say rather,” said 03-01, “that he belongs to all of us.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So they rushed off with their belongings, and then hustled through the station until they found a new platform to catch a train to Kobe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While they eat, the father’s eyes watch over his family and their belongings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This too belonged to a man — but it was strangely high-pitched, and cold as a sudden blast of icy wind. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cops wanted to know who the weapons belonged to. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A black-haired baby was zooming in and out of the picture on a tiny broom, roaring with laughter, and a pair of legs that must have belonged to James was chasing after him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Without so much as a by-your-leave from Mama or Aunt Loma, Miss Love was planning on getting rid of Granny’s belongings! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On this particular Christmas, I was overjoyed to find a place where we belonged, where we could touch the merchandise and behave as though we were free and equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple. The wood—and the spring—belong to me now.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at how he gave away Roman lands that did not even belong to him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They carried a few belongings and a secret phone number supplied by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you looked someone was filing for bankruptcy, or throwing his belongings into a U-Haul to find another job up in the rustbelt or snowbelt or crimebelt from which he thought he had escaped. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall hung a huge tinted photograph of Samuel, which had captured a cold and aloof dignity, a scrubbed and dressed remoteness, which did not belong to him living. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to Joseph, who sat behind her in class. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It belongs to a different, far bigger and more scholarly book to trace in detail the development of rhetoric teaching and theory between the ancient world and the present day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most of the records belonged to Antoine Thomas, but Erik Fisher was in there for the longest field goal, the highest field-goal percentage in a season, and the most extra points in a season. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both turned their heads at once, because it was a bird that sounded like no creature that belonged to the world they were in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea basically belonged to Count Rugen, who helped the Prince architect the place. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s giving a tenth of your belongings and your works to the Lord.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though he were never able to forget his ultimate purpose and goal—he was going home; home to his own master, home where he belonged, and nothing else mattered. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should turn back and stay in the restaurant where he belonged. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Bumblebee belongs to all of us, and what happens here is important.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The country belonged to the Phaeacians, a kind people and splendid sailors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

To myself I pretended there were other reasons I couldn’t belong at Cambridge, reasons having to do with class and status: that it was because I was poor, had grown up poor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The body belonged to a woman of an indeterminate age. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“But I didn’t mean to. I told you. It was like my hand, my hand—” Lissa raised her head from MacDuff’s back and looked at her hand as if it didn’t belong to her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Religion was now my belonging she didn’t want any part of. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she and Master danced outside, circled by clapping friends, he thought, They belong to me. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"With all these strangers filling up Winterfell of late, there's no way of saying who he belonged to." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now Em belonged to the school’s Banana Splits Book Club, for kids whose parents had split up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Later that day, we gave Charlie’s dog tag to the CO, who then packed his belongings, wrote a letter to his family, and sent it all home. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I belonged to a gang. It was when your father was breaking them up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is the one wife belonging to many white men.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So?” said Harry, scanning the short news item to which the picture belonged; it was a rather dull story about interschool competitions. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Didn’t you pack up a few belongings, tell your father you were going to leave, and take off for the adventure of your life? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t occur to Dr. Philobosian that the twisted body he stepped over in the street belonged to his younger son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But L.V. stayed off by himself, as if he felt he didn’t quite belong. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us a while to straighten out our sleeping bags and put the stuffed animals back where they belonged. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

During the day every cobblestone here belonged to the pigeons and the tourists. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t hear them, and they all sound like they belong to somebody else. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her belongings arranged at one end, she could curl up in the shade and feel almost as if she had a home. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wore the same size, and although he always criticized mine he used to wear them frequently, quickly forgetting what belonged to him and what to me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

With little warning, they were ordered to pack their belongings and report to the main square of the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I slid to the back of the room and pretended I belonged. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The locker room became his home, the one place where he always felt he belonged. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And, Pilate, you have to bury him. He wants you to bury him. Back where he belongs. On Solomon’s Leap.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How am I gonna kick her out of somewhere that don’t even belong to me?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“So you do think it belongs back in the book it came from.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People would want to take me back where I belonged if they found me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, the rule at Garland back then was that we all belonged to each other, and it didn’t matter who was related by blood. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Henceforth, when he thought about Martha, it would be only to think that she belonged elsewhere. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landlord introduced the newcomers to the Bree-folk, so quickly that, though they caught many names, they were seldom sure who the names belonged to. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Other campfires were dousing out, and there was an increasing scurry of activity as the beach residents started tying down meager belongings in preparation for changing weather. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Philip broke a vase that belonged to Anne Boleyn, Gran ordered a communications lockdown, and Mum hasn’t spoken to anyone,” Henry tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hoisting herself over the log, she staggered into the clearing, where she fell forward among Nin’s belongings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you afraid that you don’t belong here? Or that you do?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell Charles about the Illuminati, but the words belonged to my father, and even in my mind they sounded awkward, rehearsed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was a product of her search for belonging. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Was there enough magic in the woods to make her belong? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Handing out red, green, blue, and black markers, Miss Garcia asks, “How many social units do you belong to?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Each woman was either wearing or holding something that had belonged to her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one can judge an organization by the people who belong to it, and I knew that I would be proud to belong to any organization in which Walter was a member. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds like how he naturally talks, like he belongs in the suburbs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But before he could come to me, I had to convince the police that he did not belong in jail. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not one of them! I don’t belong here!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The suction sleeve is locked into the socket, and the combination feels snug and comfortable...like it belongs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The stars were circling the peaks of the mountains, dipping into the cane fields belonging to the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The river, the ocean, the deep forest belong to you. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, carrying all of their belongings in one valise, they both knew right away that perfect was not the word. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an outcast from the black tennis world, and the white tennis world wasn’t ready to accept me, so where did I belong, what should I do? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was our mother and belonged to us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been wrong at times & he realizes this but whatever he had and wherever he went he shared his life & belongings with you when he wouldn't do this for anyone else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, my dear grandson, that distinction belongs to the first time I mustered the courage to tell your abuela I loved her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Little things really belong to you,” she said, folding the fan. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the open bay and the ledge of rocks under the water did not belong to Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because it feels impossible now, the idea that we don’t belong together. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t belong on those tapes. Hannah just wanted an excuse to kill herself.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When I’d remember that the turkey didn’t belong to my family because I didn’t have a family I’d feel that stabbing pain in my chest again and I’d start to cry. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tumaiyowit angrily went down, down to another world under this world, taking his belongings with him, so people die because he did. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bicycle is the one that belonged to the sentry Paul shot when I landed here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Luckily, however, M. Yoshoto said the picture belonged to his cousin, who was away visiting relatives in Japan. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Love of life, a bright smile, a snort of laughter, a sense of belonging with her friends. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Susan had slate-gray eyes, the kind of fair skin that belongs on a Victorian queen, and a laugh that often ended with a mischievous snort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like he belonged right here with me, not a stray anymore. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He listened, and in his face there was something gentle and Jewish, the knowledge of one who belongs to a race that is oppressed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In that sense, the Terman study underscores the argument Annette Lareau makes, that what your parents do for a living, and the assumptions that accompany the class your parents belong to, matter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He belonged to the darkness—the darkness from which he had thought to flee had claimed him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When they saw Mrs. Popper coming after them, the penguins felt very guilty, because they knew they did not belong there. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I found something that didn’t belong to me and opened it by mistake.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A woman could not have custody of her children if she divorced her husband for any reason; her children—like all of her property—belonged to her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Everything about the way she carried herself said, "I belong." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The white community was particularly rattled when they learned that the car driven by the young firebombers belonged to the local antipoverty agency—and was assigned to Howard Fuller. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand yet that it was a gambling site belonging to a criminal ring, but I did know what a minus sign in front of red numbers meant. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I wanted you to think, This is where I belong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

To return to the safety of their belonging to each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Colonel Smith,’ he called to the stiff, red face at the window, ‘this horse belongs to Lorne, the printer. Boston Observer, you know. We can commandeer him all right.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow light shines like a line beneath my bedroom door, and I hear some murmurs and whispers that don’t belong to the TV, voices coming from the kitchen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing to her? Get away from her! I told you what I’d do to you if I ever caught you touching your sister again! Dirty mind! You don’t belong with normal people!” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The preacher is rapt with attention as Katherine begins spinning out a tale of woe and misery so pitiful that it belongs in a weekly serial. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He paid his bill and walked to the railway station to put his belongings in custody. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This house, the farmhouse with the big round table and chef’s kitchen, belongs to Emmett and George. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Alter, this farm wouldn’t happen to have belonged to a Mrs. O’Leary, would it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I soon saw that he was on his way toward the cows that belonged to the old bull sitting nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Habib donated the leather headgear and goggles he had worn as a pilot in the war, to which was attached a red tie belonging to Mr. Lee to simulate the bird’s fleshy nose. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have to wear a frock belonging to her mum—outmoded and severe, a thing no self-respecting girl of my generation would be caught dead in. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

How long would it take for the nurses to figure out I don’t belong here? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the closets reachable from the secret passage belonged to Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belongs on the cover of a real estate magazine. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If Allen had not told, no one would have guessed that those orchids didn't belong on top. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cutting of aloe vera that Lena gave me did not belong anywhere because we had no other succulents. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hand is being extended, and now I’m shaking that hand, and it belongs to a short, round woman with bleached yellow hair, warm eyes, and a crinkled-up face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Inej’s knives would be waiting in the hold with her other belongings. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I belonged in a city with a constant stream of traffic noise, busy pedestrians, and musicians busking on the sidewalk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“This home belongs to my wife. I stay here from time to time.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“This treasure you claim to be yours? It belongs to my family.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

From the day construction began on the hospital, Selvam ceased to belong to us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The extensive cedar, cypress, and oak groves now belonging to her would provide the raw materials that Mark Antony required. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I belong in my own world. Though I’ll be sorry to leave this one; I’ve been very happy here. The happiest I’ve ever been in my life, I think.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The final voice on the tape belonged to Mrs. Sen’s mother. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘This hole here belongs to Rabscuttle and myself. We liked the look of this bank as soon as we saw it.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand went to her knife, and as the footsteps faded, she dismantled the hammock and shoved her belongings back into her pack. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

People who passed by looked at me like I didn’t belong. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It felt strange to know that anger had been misplaced all along, that it belonged somewhere else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We packed all our worldly belongings into Nan’s old hatchback on Thursday and were on the road first thing Friday morning. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Having once belonged to a Zionist youth organization, they knew countless Hebrew songs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Angel had cheered as they circled down to the sewer where they belonged. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the boomtown, much of the work belonged to the women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Lewis's suit hanging right where it belonged. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can pretend that we don’t belong there anymore, while we’re living in relative safety in this place, but we do. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I propped myself against my closet wall with the two feather pillows that smelled like lavender and that had belonged to Great-great-aunt Florentine. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, it became dangerous for Germans to have friends who were Jewish or who belonged to the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you aren’t supposed to go. Maybe this is where you belong.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were duffel bags and what looked like a yellow-and-blue-striped sheet wrapped and tied around some belongings. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They stand in stony silence, with stony faces, staring at the young man who did not betray them, but never truly felt that he belonged to them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few moments of minor relapses, like when I told her I had never belonged to the Latin Club, but on the whole she took things better than I thought she would. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He declares not for the first time that theirs should be only a business relationship; whatever he makes officially belongs to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Later, as the other children came along and grew, Samuel belonged to the valley, and it was proud of him in the way a man who owns a peacock is proud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know I don’t belong here too?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She let him stay with me, where he belonged. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He said I was to look as if I had nothing to hide, as if I belonged there. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the auction and the things I was leaving behind, most of my belongings—except what was left of my books—fit inside. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every one of them look like they belong here. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the one thing that looks out of place, and so I pick it up and exchange it for the offering I’ve brought—a butterfly ring that once belonged to Eleanor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I know that he doesn’t belong to her anymore.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he didn’t look at her, she would go back to the upper field where she belonged. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

This time my belongings were stuffed into a plastic sack. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Sir La vine was actually riding into the lists when the great man came at full gallop, on a white horse which belonged to Meliagrance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks, after the city and I came to terms about my belonging, I haunted the points of interest and found them empty and un-San Francisco. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This will all belong to you,' his father had said, ‘you must learn the value of what you are to inherit.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to Ellen. I am her sister, her only living heir. Break it. Hurry.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo couldn’t have belonged at the library more truly if he were a book himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The bone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I loved the Yangtse River, but, of course, I belonged on the other side of the world. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The territory around the mill house, at the risk of death, belonged to the owls at night and the falcons by day. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of being like a princess’s home, the buildings looked like they belonged on a craggy cliff above a raging sea during a lightning storm. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They’d tried to stop him right up until that morning, when I heard him screaming that his body belonged to him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bobby had been keeping them among his belongings and told Benko that they were gifts he’d “received for his Bar Mitzvah.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I just keep thinking . . . that in some way I belong here. Like maybe this place can be home.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Back home he had never felt that way, as though he belonged to anyplace or anybody. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed to have had at least one hundred boxes in his storage unit and maintained that what had been brought to him was only one percent of his belongings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t believe we will? That day will come. Mark my words. We’ll put all those crooked politicians where they belong—behind iron bars.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on his shoulder and held his belongings toward him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But don’t worry, they’re all back where they belong, and nobody got hurt. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Already she belonged to the past, she was only a memory. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were, as she had said, birds of a feather, for I had never belonged anywhere, either. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

White racists-—whether or not they belonged to the Ku Klux Klan—-had through their actions and their rhetoric developed a strong incentive scheme that was terribly clear and terribly frightening. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There’s no one who needs reminding that the forgotten book on his or her shelf belongs to me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

New Jersey, across the river, was right where it belonged. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Because of my color, they thought I was a colored person, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day he saw them stepping from trains and grip-cars and hansom cabs, inevitably frowning at some piece of paper that was supposed to tell them where they belonged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was no denying that husky voice belonged to Erin Wheeler. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Stop butting your nose in where it doesn’t belong, or I’ll send you some dead lizards,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He belonged behind a desk, not running a big operation like a prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dress that had belonged to his mother. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Monsanto, or some other corporation, invents a new type of corn, it belongs to them and they can charge farmers for the right to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I am only a guest there. The castle and the town belong to Lady Dustin, and she cannot abide you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Chess sucked in the ashy air, and it smelled different now that he viewed it as belonging to the other world. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But in what pen did a given rabbit belong? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know there are many others like me, who are trying to figure out where they belong, make sense of our complicated and wonderful world, and get other people to care. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The leather jacket belonged to the days of the Corsair when men dueled in the skies for possession of Pacific atolls and for airspace above the gray, endangered fleets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ears belonged to a very hungry badger. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This does not belong here!” the priest thundered. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Urutoraman is Japan’s greatest superhero. His powers belong in Japanese hands.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But consider, Crispin, it belongs to no one else but ourselves. Honest pay for honest work. And you deserve some, too.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the histories of dinosaurs, nebulas, and glaciers are generally acknowledged to belong to fields of science rather than to the humanities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the place that belongs to the chap who had that divorce case we read about. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She said”—he wipes his eyes—“that the card belongs to the owner of this dog.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Every one belongs to every . . .” Her voice suddenly died into an almost inaudible breathless croaking. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was good to have something that had belonged to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s a part of the neighborhood that belongs to a gang.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Naturally, he had no way of knowing they belonged to Clyde Livingston. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back to. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was like a wild creature, by turns furtive and barging, ever unwashed, and with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen was in the honey house washing a new shipment of mason jars, a job that belonged to me, but she’d volunteered for it, seeing how badly I needed to write everything out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rod in the middle helps, on account of we hang our belongings and dry towels there, and it kind of divides the room in two. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only difference was he drew a Yankees hat on the Hulk, but it looked like it belonged there. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Not just a nobody with a manufactured name which might have belonged to anyone, or to no one. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up the mountain they have an observatory belonging to the Imperial Muscovite Academy. They’d be able to tell you. I know he went up there more than once.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not belong in that world, you are a rat. A rat. Say it with me. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I find it very insulting when Lucy acts like this class is beneath her. She doesn’t belong here.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of us belonged to the day, so we lived our lives at night, and what wondrous lives they were. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like Czolgosz, I considered myself an outsider and longed to commit the heroic act that would make me “belong.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Take 'em downstairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mine. Say 'Daisy's change' her mine!'." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It belonged to a very large, very grouchy-looking, very sweaty Clock Watcher. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It took me a few hours to clear my tools and other belongings out of the crummy job-site trailer where I’d been squatting. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coats—he could tell from their medals and insignia—belonged to high Nazi officials. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

We figured it must have belonged to the old lady who had lived there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every single letter belonged to one type or the other. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was no place for any belongings except under the bed and one dresser where we kept our panties, which we could not wear to sleep. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I could break the loneliness, the feeling of not belonging to the life that teemed around me, by going to the basketball courts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wrapped in a black robe that must’ve belonged to Geryon, because it was three sizes too big even for a grown man. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You belonged to Magistrate Tiger? ” the cub said when Dragon had finished. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Had thought he belonged to the school group. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were black, or at least they’d been black when they belonged to my sister. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The undertone of fear that San Francisco would be bombed which was abetted by weekly air raid warnings, and civil defense drills in school, heightened my sense of belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve had the good fortune of shelter; this hut belongs to a pupil of Anatole’s, whose father lived here but is now deceased. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later that same evening a captain came to our cell and commanded the four of us to pack our belongings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You know, that all the kids will think I'm just some puny second-grader and that"—she took a deep breath—"I don't belong." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was a scholarship boy who belonged to an earlier time. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of answering me, she kept repeating that it was important to keep Uncle Jim’s land—land that had belonged to her father and his father and his father before that—in the family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his glasses down to where they belonged and shuffled through the papers again. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Animals are said to belong to the same species if they tend to mate with each other, giving birth to fertile offspring. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the second level belonged the enemies of strength: anacondas and rhinos and crocodiles of over twenty feet. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Because dogs don’t belong in church, Opal,” the preacher said. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking for some cattle. They belonged to my uncle.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It is over! Set him down, Hagrid, at my feet, where he belongs!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She’s very moody and has been removing more and more of her belongings and locking them up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"For an instant in time I was free and alone in the dark night," he recalled, "poised between two worlds, belonging to neither." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It belongs to Day—fingerprints told us that much. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Aloud, he said, “It belongs to my dad.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had happened today didn’t belong to me, not really. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to keep him. But he belonged to someone else. The vet told me where he lived, so I tried to take him home.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

This task would belong to a group of composers whose lives overlapped and found focus within the walls of one great city: Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already it’s like I’m interrupting something, like I don’t belong here. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The mirror’s reflection also revealed that the room does not belong to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I added, with great difficulty, “I thought I belonged here.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was mounted on a beautiful marble base and belonged in a museum—a science museum, not an art museum. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think that government-owned stores are free of fourolds? That statement itself is fourolds. Didn’t you see all the shop signs that were knocked down? Most of those stores belonged to the government.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to Gene Johnson, the biohazard expert who had led the expedition to Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This light doesn't belong to you," he said. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Arthur told me about a guy who showed up at football practice looking for a fight. He didn’t belong up there. He was just looking for trouble. Am I right, Arthur?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The son of Hades said it himself. No one wants him around. He does not belong.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie ate even better; he was where he belonged, in the kitchens, a round stone building with a domed roof that was a world unto itself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, the fact that I’m still in pajamas makes it seem like my head and body belong to two different people, but I guess it will look good with the dress. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I march over and grab a handful of colored pencils, putting them safely back in the pencil holder they belong in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you belong to one of those weird religions? A cult? Is that why you can’t associate with other kids? Or go to public school? Or wear ordinary clothes?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I walked back to the kitchen, I decided I would begin to mark off my days at Central High on the big wall calendar that belonged to Grandma. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Fleece should be used to heal! It belongs to the children of the gods!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked them if I could have Keav’s belongings,” Ma whispers hoarsely. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown leather collar that belonged to the family dog who died when Bailey was nine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I found a reddit account that commented on Butler basketball and so probably belonged to Davis, but that, too, had been silent since Pickett Sr.’s disappearance. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But even as she said it, she found herself singing, the words stumbling out as if her mouth remembered what her mind did not, as if her mouth belonged to Chaya, her head to Hannah. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of staying in a hotel, they stay in an apartment in the Bastille which belongs to a friend of Moushumi’s, a male friend named Emanuel, a journalist, who is on holiday in Greece. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Bought this book of spells at a collector’s auction last year. It once belonged to Madame Violet, one of the most famous illusionists who’s ever lived.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Yan Chang explained which ones belonged to First Wife and the other concubines, who were called Second Wife and Third Wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She focused her mind on the central skull and asked: What sort of person did this skull belong to, and why did they have those holes made in it? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, through this experience Wang Lung learned what the young men had not taught him, that he belonged to his own kind, who have black hair and black eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the presumption that, because they were powerful and found her beautiful, they belonged together. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon our charming black-and-white house on Pinewood Drive would no longer belong to us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You just want my reflection. I don’t blame you, but you can’t have it. I belong to me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting on a silk napkin that must have belonged to one of his customers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To God we belong and to him we return.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I will take it and be glad because it means I can belong whether they like it or not. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After all of his father’s hard work, the automaton belonged to him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“This stuff can’t sit here forever. You know, I hope that when I die, you don’t let my belongings gather dust for months like this.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In other words, they were desperately short of people to get things done and that gave us a chance to GET OUT and eventually get back to where we belonged. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence of the world roared steadily in his ears while he came to recognize that he did not belong here, he had no place in the tree any longer. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I decided that most of the blame belonged on the doorstep of the town of Forks — and the entire sodden Olympic Peninsula, for that matter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu wished the dog were kept outside, which was where dogs belonged. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All she wants is to get back where she now belongs: the trail. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If those prints belonged to the thief, could he still be up there? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I figured Roy Lee would get up and walk out rather than belong to anything with Quentin in it, but instead he sat up on the bed and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice couldn’t make out whether they belonged to an army or were simply common thugs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Grandpop was wearing different shades, big black ones that looked like they belonged to one of the characters from the Back to the Future calendar on the wall Genie had been looking at for weeks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Have you found any old letters or papers that belonged to my family?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Come on, we need to clean out what's left. The mayor wants everything belonging to the Spencers packed up and out of here by morning.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Otherwise they were dressed identically, and their outfits definitely belonged in a nightmare. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she decided that with a broom in her hand, working in the yard, she would look as though she belonged on the place, certainly no one would suspect that she was a runaway. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He laughed and asked if I had any skills. From that moment on, I belonged to El Patron. I’ll always belong to him. He’ll never let me go.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and Rae are perfect for each other. You practically belong together.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

What worried me was the thought that I actually belonged in Valencia's house, that of all the homes in New York, my place was here with the Barefoot Contessa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The village was on the bank of a great river where lush fruits and vegetables grew, but no one was allowed to eat anything because it all belonged to the crocodile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sadly, Siddhartha went to a pleasure garden that belonged to him, closed the gates, sat under a mango tree, and felt horror and death in his heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the pressure to belong was literally a matter of life and death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s filled with pain and mutilation and death. I’m sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I’m not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

These pairs pop out of the text at us, and when they belong to the same phrase they can lubricate the parsing process, allowing the words to be joined up quickly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In closing I want to add clothing is cultural, and Muslims belong to ALL cultures of the world. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They belonged to Odysseus and no hand but his had ever strung the bow or used it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra didn’t think much about what racial category she belonged to—her family had let go of that way of looking at things a long time ago. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Sundays we all went into church, me riding on the seat between Ma and Pa, John riding in back where he belonged. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It belongs to the submerged landscape of the things that are never said, which lies beneath ordinary speech like hills under water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It could be a birthday that triggered the new cycle or something more unexpected, like finding something in a drawer that belonged to her. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She wasn't sure why she was saving these words, but she felt like they belonged in her lock box. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But the question of who belongs on Everest and who doesn’t is more complicated than it might first appear. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That fall Ruth had to fly back to Florida to sell her condo, pack her belongings, and wrap things up in general to prepare for this new phase in her life. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And how I don’t belong completely in either world, but — When sotneone is upset it's not a good tirne to bring up your own problems. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presumably they belonged to venerated ancestors whose beneficent presence was thus assured. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The working class belonged to the AFL-CIO, voted Democratic, and did not take cruises to the Caribbean. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No? Then gather your belongings and come with me.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looked like a small, frightened animal, weighed down by her belongings. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The photographer had also brought me a pair of lined woolen climbing slacks belonging to his wife, good ones, well-made and not much used, which he gave to me after he put away his equipment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We live here, it is ours, we belong. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“MidPass and the Ridge have never gotten along. Something to do with the stories of Alke, and which belonged to whom.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Searching, like we are, for a place to belong and feel safe, until they found a new and magical home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Within a few blocks of our house were half a dozen crazy women and girls, all belonging to village families. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all over, several buildings had been wholly or partially burned—including another house belonging to Abe Greenberg—and the windows of dozens of businesses lay in shards on the sidewalks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aru’s confusion must have showed, because Summer shrugged and said, “Hotness doesn’t belong to any one gender.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They stack up in her mind, soggily, arbitrarily, and she sorts through them like cherished belongings after a flood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe because stars don’t just belong to the Greater Jungle or the Zamani Region. We see them the same no matter where we are on this continent.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It had been there two hundred years almost, and its detachment marked it out from the rest of the land, and it belonged to her more than to anyone else. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It belongs to a dark-haired girl with three silver rings through her right eyebrow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had to be cross-pollinated by another plant belonging to a genetically different variety of their species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That means wherever we put a single foot—it’s land that belonged to the Lenape. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was cared for by a group of Jansenists, Catholics who belonged to a sect based largely on a hatred of the Jesuit order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

More than family, our factions are where we belong. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It felt good to have a hand to hold, even if it belonged to Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For example, peas belong to the genus Pisum, which consists of two wild species: Pisum sativum, the one that became domesticated to yield our garden peas, and Pisum fulvum, which was never domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The glass table was surrounded by black chairs that looked like they belonged on a spaceship. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s always about what they want. Because he belongs to them more than he belongs to me. And I want to make them proud of me. It’s all I want.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The coach muttered something about how that kid belonged anywhere but in a footrace. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

His toes, which peeked through leather slippers, seemed feminine, perhaps because they were so clean; they belonged to feet that always wore shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And that was the end of it. The guy came up there looking for a fight, and he found one. The guy didn’t even belong up there.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux snarled and began fighting whoever that hand belonged to instead of the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You belong with us. It’ll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We thought it may have been DeVante’s, but Seven looked inside and everything in it belonged to him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I heard a scream and didn’t realize it had belonged to me until that same black monster’s head swiveled toward us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When someone falls ill, the family throws out his belongings, puts the sick person on someone’s back or a wagon if the family is lucky enough to have one, and march on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry knew they would go back to New Orleans, where they belonged. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

"It doesn't belong to me! I have to return it to Mrs Phelps!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew why they were not allowed to touch this tree, but since the tree belonged to this man, they accepted the rule. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Then you can’t say for sure that it belongs to either of my clients, is that right?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some discomfort stands between us now, and I know I don’t belong here anymore. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a schoolbag. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The suitcase also holds a Bible that belonged to Chris when he was a child, even though, she allows, “I haven’t prayed since we lost him.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first floor belongs to Madame Manec: clean, navigable, full of visitors who come through the kitchen door to trade in small-town scandal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What would he think of me for trying to blend into a place I don’t belong? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep myself from thinking about the bad part, I rummaged through our pile of moldering belongings until I found Clematis. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid wanted to have a luck ceremony and then to put things away where they belonged, but Moon Orchid said, “I've got presents for everybody. Let me get them.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Struggling where we cannot truly live, where we do not truly belong. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Styx told wild stories about things he’d seen and done, all the places he’d been, and to Dad, such adventures belonged in books, only to be whispered in the dark. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yet that brook belongs to a part of my life that is finished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the new panaqa belonged the Inka and his wives and children, along with his retainers and advisers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the plane landed, I was the first to see the white parents, but I could not stop to scrutinize them and guess which belonged to me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It thrived so much that the people kept taking, taking, taking land that belonged to the mountain creatures. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I walked to the truck and climbed to the top of the pile of belongings, where my brothers were waiting. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I’d taken my gray coat from the closet, but it was so small it looked as if it might have belonged to my little sister. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Complicating matters, the FBI had just discovered that the hundred-dollar bills found in the burglars’ pockets had all been withdrawn from a bank account belonging to the Committee to Reelect the President. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I asked if it had belonged to her father. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and soft and warm, somewhere between two and four a.m., one of those hours that belong exclusively to the newly born or the dying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them, I knew, belonged to the trainband and were going off to get their weapons. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eyed the green brocade purse that had belonged to Calixte’s grandmother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She just hoped Mr. Derby’s new purchase would get put out in the fields where she belonged. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deza’s momma was right, someone who doesn’t know who their family is, is like dust blowing around in a storm, they don’t really belong any one place. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sleep belonged to the same category as swimming; both activities were necessary and dangerous in equal parts. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tractor I was driving belonged to George Naylor, a big man with a moon face and a scraggly gray beard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every day brought compromise so basic neither one would talk about it, as though such prideless friendship belonged to a realm past conversation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The leader of the group that I belonged to was a boy who was seventeen,” said one Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had all renamed themselves, the article said, adding that it was a right belonging to every American citizen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learn that one of our owners is a Scientologist; another proudly claims descent from one of the same Scottish clans my own ancestors belonged to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoons were gray and quiet, charged with the air of ripeness and belonging. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He answered that he’d found it and caught it, so it belonged to him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at my desk, but I keep my mask on for a few minutes longer until my tears go back to where they belong. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had come across refugees from a Nazi concentration camp, and concluded that they belonged to a culture that had always been barefoot and starving. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her body jerked as though it belonged to someone else. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search the markets for more than three weeks without seeing any kind of wood that looks as if it could belong in our attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It felt funny sneaking into the room that had once belonged to our beloved Shirley. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But I had dismissed it as belonging to the natural order of things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s the matter with me that wouldn’t be better if you went back outside where you belong.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he repacked the hatbox and told the conductor to return them both where they belonged. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, they were all my Legos that Yvonne had brought me, but that room didn’t really belong to me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In an instant he was bolt upright again, yanked by a hand he couldn’t believe belonged to a girl. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Inside were two scarves that had belonged to their mother. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even Wash belonged equally, if differently, to the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t belong here. And he is not my friend,” I said in a quiet voice cold with fear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When she returned to us, she brought a lot of our belongings with her—things like clothes and cooking pots and utensils. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We broke the table down and propped it up beside the front steps—I didn’t know where it belonged—and we bundled the pamphlets and brought them and everything else back to my room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

An even more important role has been played by a bacterial disease that affects beetles of the family to which the Japanese beetle belongs — the scarabaeids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It took me a moment to realize that the next voice belonged to Dean Moran. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

So I was left standing there, a sad little boy holding tight against my chest the thin blanket in which my few belongings were tied. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Zoe, we will rest here for a few hours. Raise the tents. Treat the wounded. Retrieve our guests’ belongings from the school.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem to belong on the islands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As she was being marched down the hall, a voice from one of the cells they passed called out, Mariposa does not belong to herself alone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes ma’am, she say, and I thought I had this house too, but look like it belong to your sister Nettie and you. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’ve got to go back — term starts on September first. It’s all that’s keeping me going. You don’t know what it’s like here. I don’t belong here. I belong in your world — at Hogwarts.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We came to the little Morris car belonging to Frank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t belong to the family; it belongs to Father.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This hut with all its memories was to be taken from us, for it stood on land that belonged to another. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know a whole lot about castes and subcastes, but whatever the topmost one is, she looks like she could belong to it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He was allowed to wear his own clothes “and to keep my watch and other small belongings.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was drawing ragged breaths just from the effort of packing a few of my belongings into a brown paper bag. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She said to herself, “That’s it,” and went backstage and started packing up her belongings to go home. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I kept staring at my hands, almost believing they belonged to someone else. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This meant that the fork belonged to Mrs. Shears. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blue and green houses had belonged to her family for generations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They want to be able to prove their belief and their belonging, through rituals and devotion. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now it belongs to the Germans, confiscated for their Fatherland. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our meals, our actions, were only a shadow of what had already happened there, a lagging ghost of where Mr. Pirzada really belonged. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This house belongs to a lot of other people now. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The frisk of our second cell, which belonged to a skinny, middle-aged man, was also uneventful. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was replete with a sense of belonging. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I didn’t always perform at the top of my class, I always felt that it was with those minds where I belonged, and felt the most comfortable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

C. J. thought the man belonged in the Slammer at the Institute. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes ma’am, she say, and I thought 1 had this house too, but look like it belong to your sister Nettie and you. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king had declared that large amounts of territory on the continent belonged to England. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I distributed the furniture among the various tenants, except the dining-room table, which was still intact despite the worms that had got into everything, and the wrought-iron bed that had belonged to my parents. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Yummy picked through the wreckage for their most essential belongings, 27 cents and a half pint of a foul brandy they called “bow-wow wine.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was caused not by an insecticide but by a substance belonging chemically to the same group as the organic phosphate insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was the only thing I ever owned that hadn't belonged to some other Swieteck before me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Go much prefers to sit in the Show Room, in the stained Art Deco theater seats that originally belonged to a movie house in Oakland, now demolished. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the quarter, at night, some of the slaves gathered together in the cabin that belonged to Ben, her father, and talked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A central tenet of the Kodály approach is that music belongs to everyone—that an education in music is the right of every human being and cannot be left to chance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It can carry you through the long, cold moments standing there, trying to look like you belong. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They ransacked the offices and confiscated files on six million young Germans who belonged to rival groups. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In legal scholar Ricardo Bascuas’s words, “Operation Pipeline is exactly what the Framers meant to prohibit: a federally-run general search program that targets people without cause for suspicion, particularly those who belong to disfavored groups.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even making it to State would be huge: a message that girls like us do belong on the field. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Now slip me snug about your ears, I’ve never yet been wrong, I’ll have a look inside your mind And tell where you belong! Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He hoped the people wouldn’t notice he didn’t belong and force him back uptown before he saw Mr. Flynn. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I turned the fan on and unpacked my belongings. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No, what really happened is she came in here lonely and confused, I think, and thinking that she belonged in a place like this...” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sheep were at the gates of the city, in a stable that belonged to a friend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all that can be known with certainty about this initial group is that it belonged to a diverse, four-thousand-year-old tradition characterized by the construction of large earthen mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It was a reporter,” he said, “the fellow from the County Chronicle. Was it true, he said, that the boat belonging to the late Mrs. de Winter had been found?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed out of the tent at full speed, skidded into my camp, and grabbed up all my belongings. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the special items we had belonged to Gran, and we’d placed several of them on her grave after her funeral. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But more to him than its dark fertility was the fact that it had belonged once to the family of a prince. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In Holmes’s office they found a bank book belonging to a woman named Lucy Burbank. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He studied the photograph surreptitiously and then closed the magazine and put it back where it belonged, on the top shelf. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Their mother belonged to a Women’s Communications Club—women of different backgrounds writing letters to editors and sharing optimistic ideas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I was so thankful that I’d found his letter on my twelfth birthday, and that he was in my life now, where he belonged. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They packed up their belongings in a U-Haul and moved in with Daphne’s mother, who was conveniently dying and left Daphne the house in Dove Canyon. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I go back for all my family’s belongings and get stuck, having parts of them won’t matter if I’m reprogrammed and don’t remember them at all. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anything that belonged to the Navajo way was bad, and our Navajo language was the worst. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what is beneath my feet, really, beyond the lie that it belongs to us? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The emotions in the vision seemed to belong to someone else, and Taisin couldn’t reconcile them with the present. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cory had an uncle, and he sure looked like he belonged in a motorcycle gang. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to blame her mom for saying it would be okay if she dressed differently and her father for saying she just had to act as if she belonged and she would. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This defense seemed to me to belong to an earlier time, before World War II, when higher education could ensure positions of social power and prominence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, all Dinka women marry because it gives them a sense of belonging. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day the ships are to leave, I go to Captain Smith’s cabin to help him gather his belongings. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It belonged to someone in the shadows, at the edge of my dream. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a “Guns don’t kill people—abortion clinics do” bumper sticker on her car. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a creepy place, a place where it seemed people didn’t belong. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Call, who had always belonged to me because nobody else besides his mother and grandmother would have him, and the Captain, who finally through all our troubles and misunderstandings had become mine as well. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t know how to walk over and act like I belong. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She crawled under the fence and pulled her belongings through. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Days later we packed our belongings in a suitcase and took the bus to Guadalajara to catch the train. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The summer she arrived with half the contents of the trunk of magic books that had belonged to Uncle Marcos, she was nearly ten years old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like he belonged there and I was his best friend. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should have been exhausted by noon, when the mound of belongings by the front door had grown waist high. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"You're very polite but I belong to another generation," he announced solemnly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wait in the strange darkness of my make-believe yard, listening for the silence that will allow me to escape to where I belong. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mai sat on her bed and appreciated that she had an actual room with walls and a door that belonged to her and to Willow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I grab another arm—I’m not sure who it belongs to, there are too many tangled hands—and look up at her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The guys who’d been with me in the police van, the second we walked in, they instinctively, automatically, walked off to join the groups they belonged to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I do know all the money he deals with belongs to somebody else. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“She belonged to an old Khazar family. They escaped the old tsar’s slaughter. Fled north, like yer babushka. They had neighbors who...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were also accused of stealing the household items and tools they possessed, because supposedly such items should belong only to white people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to the thirty-eight-year-old, unmarried daughter of the family that, up to a few weeks earlier, had been living in the house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The men who belonged to the Nation were easy to recognize, standing in front of their storefront mosques with their bow ties and bean pies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some said: ‘They are Elvish wights. Let them go where they belong, into the dark places, and never return. The times are evil enough.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Doesn't the orphanage in the south of the city also belong to the Merciful Sisters?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was one belonging of his that need no longer concern him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask for further explanation, but something stopped me—the certainty that to do so would be to shout to the room that I didn’t belong there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I watched him steal money from my mother’s purse and sell our belongings for drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I want to tear them all down and shred them up and put them in the pile with the rest of the bad, false words, because that’s exactly where they belong. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“All the rats in the Dreadfort belong to my lord father. How dare you make a meal of one without my leave.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When you find oil on somebody’s property, it doesn’t automatically belong to them, but they do get a portion of the profits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What time do they really belong in, their own or mine? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had so few belongings it was possible to take them in one trip. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So I take off my mother’s church dress and put on a plain sweatshirt that belongs to Chantal and a pair of new jeans. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stood in the front of the fine as always, because the back was for the girls who belonged to cliques, girls who giggled and whispered to one another, shielded from the teachers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought this belonged to that bloke Perkins at the Ministry?” he asked, starting to disentangle the tent pegs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“After all, the cabin boy is your ancestor. This treasure belongs to you and your family.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They are racketing around up north somewhere and I would have the house to myself; but my idea of myself and my parents’ idea of me no longer belong in the same place. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she returned, the US government gave her a piece of paper saying that this land, kwe’e sikehfjn, right here where we sit, belonged to her.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the snow, staring at the possessions outside the barn, evaluating the contents and whom they might belong to. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Except for Cinnamon’s blue and yellow plywood apartment in one corner, it might have belonged to any high school girl. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to produce the black Mary picture and say, This belonged to my mother, this exact same, identical picture you put on your honey jars. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened? Did you fall off a motorbike belonging to one of your Stanford boyfriends? Or did the evil coach of your track team put a hit out on you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t belong here,” Clay said angrily, almost to himself. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the Niffler is gentle and even affectionate, it can be destructive to belongings and should never be kept in a house. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until we became familiar enough to belong to the Store and it to us, we were locked up in a Fun House of Things where the attendant had gone home for life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With our few bags of belongings, we went to a hotel in Burundi, where we stayed for a week with other families who would be relocated. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If you belong, you pay your two, or three, or five dollars a year—but who gives those organizations those two, and three, and five thousand dollar donations? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the chaotic clamor outside is too much for you, then you do not belong here. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I’d do anything to take my words back, to put them again in the safe silent vault inside me where they belong. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it feels like she belongs in high school more than I do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The steely-haired landlady helped them move in, and a couple of months later, when they fell behind on their rent, she put their belongings on the street and padlocked their room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Julius knew he had only minutes before Caesar realized what had happened—that they had passed out of the Colosseum to freedom instead of into the cellars where they belonged. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Genetic analysis proved that the finger belonged to a previously unknown human species, which was named Homo denisova. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said a person belongs to a group, you can’t belong to everyone. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t belong to us. We can’t just take it,” Pita said, looking scared. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He thought, we keep on going to new places, awful places, we keep on not belonging. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My blood cries out that it belongs to her, and struggles to return to her, and I hear her words in my mind as I run, telling me to be brave. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was as though she felt that the incense belonged to them both; it was a moment of marriage. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Here they were, trying to bring back that old feeling, that feeling they belonged to America the way they felt during the war. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It heals monsters, but you do not belong. Tartarus will not heal Percy. The pit hates your kind.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I miss everything about Pakistan so much but have begun to wonder if I belong there at all now that I’m back. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Dayah gives most of our belongings to the other family: extra blankets and cushions, cooking pots and water containers, old clothes and food. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged on that stage more than he's ever belonged with us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kim and I had always assumed that we both belonged to the latter category. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would place the blame where it belonged. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cannot be definitely dated, but the earliest are considered by most scholars to belong to the end of the eighth century or the beginning of the seventh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what I hear, still ringing in my mind’s ear, is the Glee Club I belonged to, made up of girls from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the semicircular bay window behind the piano and looked down onto Seventy-second Street to watch the police load up their vans with my parents’ belongings. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

From the weeds to the carriage; from the carriage into this cabin that could belong to anyone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an engraving of Shakespeare himself on the title page, and on the opposite page, in faded brown ink, someone had written, This hook belongs to Mabel Hatch. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They are not orphans. They are not orphans,” he kept saying as he watched us gather our belongings. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It might have belonged to another age, another world. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On August II, Louie packed his belongings, the flag, and an array of other stolen Teutonica and left his room in the Olympic Village. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You forget how much she belongs to Highbury. I have heard her every year of our lives since we both began. She plays charmingly.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He has no idea that the voice in my head, the voice coming through his Walkman, belongs to Hannah Baker. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

‘It is perfectly obvious that this cup now stands where it belongs. The question is how was it ever separated from its fellows?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to throw it away—give it to the next old crone I saw—anything to gain my relief; but the money belonged to Sacrabani, not to me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t belong here. I wish we hadn’t ever come here. I don’t know what’s the matter with me. I want to go away.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the third test we were told to examine five drawings and figure out which two didn't belong. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She knew that voice and who it belonged to. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because Cole and the bear belonged to the same landscape now, Cole still felt the bear inside. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The ship’s speaker system buzzed with announcements, calls for lost and found children, and misplaced belongings. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Manhattan was all she knew, so if she didn’t belong there, where did she belong? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a tiny studio, crammed full of belongings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next one belongs to Lena, who got a C even though her group’s map is probably the best. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They started the war in our Aztlan, a land that belongs to us by nature, and by nature we will bury them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew he had taken the front so he could pretend the car belonged to him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“You don’t belong in the village anymore. You’re worthless, with that leg. Your mother always protected you but she’s gone now. You should go too. Why didn’t you just stay in the Field?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The promise of Paris had brought Aru one tiny step closer to belonging. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why should either of those things matter to him? I don’t belong to him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The boys lived in different neighborhoods and attended different schools, but they belonged to the same Mormon church. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Looking like he belonged in our house, he sat right next to Mamá on the couch, their hands almost touching as they answered questions about our disappearance and return. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I happily gather up my belongings for the move to Point Comfort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I will save her from Unity Valley, and this will finally get her to move back to New York City, where we belong. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That Pearl—a mile and a half away, watching television with her own brothers and sister—did not exist, that this life belonged to her, Izzy, and her alone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They have a fight that sounds like it belongs on the factory floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sure, I do. But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn’t really belong to the person that has them.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Just as important, though, is the information you don't have when you look through someone’s belongings. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“That getup really does something for you, Janey-Jane. I can see why you take your training and all that so serious. You belong to this life. You’ll be a brilliant Attendant.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“This camp isn’t for me. There’s a reason they didn’t put a cabin to Hades here, Percy. He’s not welcome, any more than he is on Olympus. I don’t belong. I have to go.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He could not comprehend people that looked like Mr. Richard taking away the things that belonged to people that looked like him, Ugwu, for no reason at all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt says we will travel right past Florida without stopping because it belongs to the Spanish. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We’ll leave you all your treasure,” Leo said, “except the stuff that belongs to us, and the astrolabe, and this book, which we’ll take back to the dude in Venice.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At thirty-four minutes by his wrist- watch, he puts on his shoes and a hat that belonged to his father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather saw fit to build this house on land that did not belong to him—that does not belong to you now. The sheriff is trying to explain the consequences of that.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But if it were not for the two Icelandic Eddas we should know practically nothing of the religion which molded the race to which we belong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily warily watched James shove his belongings back into his backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Across the field, the kids from Ms. Alvarez’s portable came walking out with their belongings, in single file, like they were supposed to do in a fire drill. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each is standing behind a little pile of belongings. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“If you’d like any belongings packed up and shipped to Tokyo with you,” he replies, “just say the word and it’ll be done today. In the meanwhile, you will have everything you need here.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We are on the Domain. On his land, his and Ellen’s and Ellen’s descendants. They have taken it away from them since, I understand. But it still belongs to him, to Ellen and her descendants.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erickson and Balee belong to a cohort of scholars that in recent years has radically challenged conventional notions of what the Western Hemisphere was like before Columbus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The other one made little slashes on the skin of her thigh, using an old- fashioned straight razor that had belonged to her grandfather. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, these four chairs belong to my family,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll feel better if I hear my mom say she belongs here, with us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Two herbicides belonging to the carbamate group, IPC and CIPC, have been found to play a role in producing skin tumors in mice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are so many reasons why I don’t belong in debate club. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you and Tam Lin belong to El Patron?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, Harvey’s story belongs in the next chapter. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Anglican” meant English Church; in England everybody had to belong to it, or at least they were supposed to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, even after she had washed her hands, holding the crisp, slender hundred-dollar bill he had given her, her fingers still felt sticky; they no longer belonged to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No, it is real. The Brotherhood, we call it. You will never learn much more about the Brotherhood than that it exists and that you belong to it. I will come back to that presently.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Around her, other students packed up their belongings. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Take a pencil or pen and assign each name to the category to which it belongs by putting a check mark either to the left or to the right of the word. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In order to help his sister, the young man agreed to go to her hut and to smell some of the things that belonged to the husband. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The evicted Polish families were permitted to take only a cartful of belongings. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The code was simple: when her mother had a braid, she belonged to Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t belong in the same way as the others. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“They do not belong to the Aleuts,” I said, “they belong to me.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One day,” Nhamo said when she had recovered, “a hen belonging to the junior wife wandered into the senior wife’s hut and broke three pots. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there were only two pieces left to draw, it was established to whom they belonged. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Colored folks used to stay where they were told that they belonged. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His letter set down the basic rights that in his view belonged to everyone on American soil—the first formal call for liberty in the colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it belongs back in the book it came from?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"But why, my lord? Surely they cannot harm you now. It is where they belong. All the bones of the Stalks—" "I said no." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Muhammad was busy away at school when Mom and I moved in, so neither of them belong to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I hid Miss Lilian’s belongings behind my back and tried to edge past him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In 1923 it had been a passenger car belonging to Dr. W. T. Waters. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, these rustles belonged to the prairie night—pack rats and prairie dogs and who knew what else. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mina leads me through the back exit, which leads to a small courtyard, and then through a gate belonging to a neighboring building. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I check the house for belongings, shut the door to the attic, and set the photograph upright beside the sugar tin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Your life belongs to you and you alone, soso gi. You will go back on Saturday. Let me hurry up and make some abacha for you to take.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look as if it belonged to anyone: no collar, not an ounce of fat on it, nothing to suggest it had a caring owner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Named the church he belonged to and said that he was an officer in the navy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I don’t say the rest of it, which is that she belongs with me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z