Belonging

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. ❋ JODI PICOULT (2005)

This term belonging properly to those things which we can observe in the ordinary course of things, by a natural decay, to come to an end in ❋ Unknown (2007)

ELISION, the omission or crowding out of unstressed words or unaccented syllables to make the metre smoother; a term belonging to classical prosody and inappropriate in English prosody except where syllable-counting verse is concerned. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

Highness is a title belonging to all persons in a royal family. ❋ J. Marshall Hawkes (N/A)

The true God is an object of intent, an ideal of excellence and knowledge, not a term belonging to sense or to probable hypothesis or to the prudent management of affairs. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

Clifford's case as one that is less obviously inadequate: -- if any resemblance to the material and dynamical conditions of the microcosm can be detected in the macrocosm, we should have good reason to ascribe to the latter those attributes of subjectivity which we know as belonging to the former; but if no such resemblance can be traced, we shall have some reason to suppose that these attributes do not belong to the universe. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)

_Prime Minister_ is a term belonging to the last century. ❋ Queen Of Great Britain Victoria (1860)

There, among the high rank weeds that surrounded it, his eagle-eyes actually saw feathers, which he identified as belonging to his wife's turkeys. ❋ Emily Catharine Pierson (1851)

Monedo is strictly a term belonging to the Indian mythology and necromancy, and is constantly used to indicate a spirit. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

Monedo_ is strictly a term belonging to the Indian mythology and necromancy, and is constantly used to indicate a spirit. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)

For, suppose it be Christ who is here called "the blessed God;" this however is certain, that blessedness or happiness is a title belonging to God, which is all that is necessary for a foundation of my present discourse. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

We also found that it was a title belonging to a personage of great rank and power in the island, who resembles pretty much the Delai Lama of the Tartars, and the ecclesiastical emperor of ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Way back in the halcyon days pre-9 / 11 we might have described terrorism as a label belonging to a few troublesome regional groups - the PKK, the IRA, the ETA for example. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can quite understand that when we grab the hand of the German's wife and shake it like a pump-handle instead of bowing over it; that when we nod cheerfully to him in the street with a wave of the hand or a lifting of a cane or umbrella instead of taking off our hat; that when we fail to address both him and his lady with the title belonging to them, no matter how commonplace that title, we shock his prejudices and his code of good manners. ❋ Price Collier (1886)

This term belonging properly to those things which we can observe in the ordinary course of things, by a natural decay, to come to an end in a certain period of time; and so have in our minds, as it were, a standard to which we can compare the several parts of their duration; and, by the relation they bear thereunto, call them young or old; which we cannot, therefore, do to a ruby or a diamond, things whose usual periods we know not. ❋ Hill, George (2005)

_encomienda_ is a term belonging to the military orders (from the ranks of which came many officials appointed for the colonies), and corresponds to our word "commandery." ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

A message left Monday morning on a cellphone identified as belonging to Mr. Barai wasn't immediately returned. ❋ Jenny Strasburg (2011)

A message left Monday on a cellphone identified as belonging to Mr. Barai wasn't returned. ❋ Steve Eder (2011)

[How could you] not [know] you belong with me? ❋ SomeoneToBeWith (2010)

[These are] my belongings...where are yours? ❋ Jessica (A Beautiful Mind) (2008)

1.this book very belongs to [michael jackson]. 2.hey duuuuude,you belong me,can yo understand it,boy! 3.that [apartment] is for my dad. 4.we belong to the [football team] of our city. ❋ Pedy (2006)

"[Dang] my [science teacher] is such a [belonger]." ❋ Shwakalong (2007)

You should [date] that guy [Jon]. [Naw] he belong to the streets. ❋ X97X (2019)

she done [fucked] [two men] in [a day]? man she belong to the streets ❋ Lil Hjak (2021)

"What the hell man, i haven't [acquired] a damn thing since we got here, and suddenly nothing fits in this [suitcase]!" "What you've got here is a case of [BELONGINGS EXPANSION]." ❋ Clemy (2011)

“Now he belongs to the ages.” — were the words of United States Secretary of War Edwin M. [Stanton], who was near President Abraham Lincoln’s deathbed on [April 15], [1865]. ❋ Scottyallen (2018)

[CAR THIEF]: All your [benz] are belong to us!! ❋ Gumba Gumba (2004)

[Uggh]... [What is that] song? Man, [that belongs on AM]... ❋ Leecipher (2011)