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Belonged in sentence

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They belonged to boys.
They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.
So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness.
In fact, he belonged to the elite territorial support group.
He was arrested because there were transfers of eight million dollars that went into some dormant accounts that belonged to him and his family.
That genetic material probably belonged, if it could belong to anyone, to a local community of poor people who parted with the knowledge that helped the researchers to find the molecule, which then became the medicine.
To prove that I belonged, I had to show poise and confidence, the ability to speak well and listen closely.
But all throughout my childhood, there were these moments that formed my understanding of the different worlds I belonged to.
We were able to tell that she belonged to the human family tree because the legs, the foot, and some features clearly showed that she walked upright, and upright walking is a hallmark in humanity.
And so we evolved into social animals, where we lived together and worked together in what I call a circle of safety, inside the tribe, where we felt like we belonged.
Since this report came to light, more young people than ever were discussing sexual harassment on the campus, and the university that Michaela belonged to gave her the assistance she needed.
We identified five design conditions that belonged to the hard half of a house, and we went back to the families to do two things: join forces and split tasks.
Her brother was murdered by the state-sponsored militia, and she was raped more than once just because she belonged to the wrong party.
You cut away something that belonged to me."
And it was Raisuddin, despite being a newcomer, despite being attacked, despite being homeless and traumatized, who belonged to that republic of dreams and Stroman who belonged to that other wounded country, despite being born with the privilege of a native white man.
Perhaps part of this journey is about me trying to find out where I belonged.
But what I did find were people that belonged themselves, and they inspired me, some extraordinary people, and I'd like to introduce you to some heroes of mine.
You couldn't tell which part belonged to which body.
The house belonged to the Zacchini family, who were something like American circus royalty.
The more time I spent around these people and saw this problem, I thought, what if we could create a community, a place where people could feel like they belonged and that it was OK to do things differently, to take the road less traveled, where that was encouraged, and inspire people to change?
The gothic label belonged to literature and film until the 1970s when a new musical scene emerged.
LN: What she had, she discovered, was a tibia, a leg bone, and specifically, one that belonged to a cloven-hoofed mammal, so something like a cow or a sheep.
It turns out that the 3.5 million-year-old bone that Natalia had dug out of the High Arctic belonged to ... a camel.
One day, this ring that belonged to my grandfather will pass to my son, Charlie.
Yes, prior to the war, almost half of the Syrian population lived in slums, peripheral areas without proper infrastructure, made of endless rows of bare block boxes containing people, people who mostly belonged to the same group, whether based on religion, class, origin or all of the above.
Buried in the documents were secret offshore entities, such as Wintris Inc., a company in the British Virgin Islands that had actually belonged to the sitting Icelandic prime minister.
For good luck, he carried one of the holiest relics in Christendom: the veil that had belonged to the Virgin Mary.
Now, social dance is about community and connection; if you knew the steps, it meant you belonged to a group.
So this is the iron hand that belonged to one of the German counts.
So yes, fear was there, but I would take a good hard look at it, assess just how relevant it was and then put it where it belonged, which was more often than not behind my exhilaration, my anticipation and my confidence.
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