How do you use the word "belong" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "belong": Do you belong to any clubs? You belong in a better place than this.

Belong Meaning

/bɪˈlɒŋ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo have its proper place.

verbTo have its proper place., To be accepted in a group.

Sentence Examples

Do you belong to any clubs?

You belong in a better place than this.

These old books belong to the library on the corner.

CEFR Practice Quiz

These ancient artifacts ____ in a museum, not in a private home.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

These keys do not ____ to me, I found them on the ground in the park.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English be- Proto-Germanic *langōną Proto-West Germanic *langōn Old English langian Middle English longen Middle English belongen English belong From Middle English belongen, bilongen, from Middle English be- + longen (“to be fitting, be suitable”), from Old English langian (“to pertain to, suit”), equivalent to be- + long (“to belong”). Compare Saterland Frisian beloangje (“to attain, reach, meet”), Dutch belangen (“to concern”), German belangen (“to sue, concern”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"" We have," he says, "in these parts a provincial usage of the word "belong:" as, "belong to Halifax," "belong to Leeds: "or, more commonly, "belong Halifax," "belong Leeds:" meaning, live there." — [1866, Henry Alford, A Plea for the Queen's English:

"Ah! this is the elder of the two - not the one who belongs to Cornwall - I can see that chap still there, holding on to yonder spar." — 1878, James Francis Cobb, The Watchers on the Longships:

"Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared." — 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

"More evils belong us than happen to us." — 1953, Ben Jonson, Timber: Or, Discoveries, page 70:

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