verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of belonging (= a feeling that you belong to a group )
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The organization tries to foster a sense of belonging through these social events.
belong to a category
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A lot of water plants belong to this category.
belong to a class
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Like you, I belong to the working class.
belong to a club
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Do you belong to any university clubs or societies?
belong to a gang
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Eleven men belonging to a local gang were arrested.
belong to a group
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Ben belonged to an environmental group.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
here
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She is realizing she does not belong here .
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I felt ugly, odd: a tall, pale woman from some other world who did not belong here at all.
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He belonged here , fitted so well with Venice's proud past.
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The thing did not belong here , trespassing in my room.
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More than anything else Alexei knew that he was not like his father, and could never belong here .
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Question is, does your child belong here , too?
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She belonged here , where things weren't real.
once
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Drunk one day, driving her on his Harley, he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London.
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Later it was discovered that the mirror once belonged to Monroe.
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Asked about the photographs, Walter Kern said only that he once belonged to an outdoor nature group.
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It once belonged to his father, and, before that, to his grandfather.
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She says they once belonged to her eldest brother.
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The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia.
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The rubies rumoured to have belonged once to Marie-Antoinette had been dispatched to the diva, who always wore scarlet.
really
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The most difficult job will be to rehouse and reshape soccer while remembering just who it really belongs to.
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Because of his color, it has been repeatedly assumed that he does not really belong at Vassar.
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Sooner or later we must find somewhere that we can know really belongs to us.
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Why do they really belong together?
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They were the first to leave their societies, their classes, and they never really belonged anywhere again.
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They had no doubt that the hypothesis stated in Allison's paper really belongs to Mark.
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It was a long time since she had really belonged anywhere.
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But from the first day until now I have never really belonged .
to
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Most importantly it is a place members recognise as a privilege to belong to.
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This is because the greatest melody-writers belong to past epochs and set an example which modern composers can hardly match.
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The cottage the gate belonged to had disappeared, but perversely its gate had been left behind.
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One in ten of the population either belongs to or works for the Securitate.
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They belonged to Home Sister and, of all people, the Night Super.
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It wasn't, actually, if you could forget who it belonged to , a bad body.
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It seems that these patterns are maintained by insider knowledge depending on the extent to which speakers belong to relatively close-knit groups.
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It should also be noted that for the purposes of theft property may belong to more than one party.
■ NOUN
car
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The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague, the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher.
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The lost or damaged car will then belong to us.
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A Northern registered car , believed to belong to the men, was discovered at Annagh, a few miles from the town.
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Another hit a car belonging to the owner of the house.
category
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At least some of the seven small buildings just outside the military compounds at Corbridge may also belong in this category .
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This series belongs to the latter category , believe it.
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The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category .
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Family stories, such as the ones about my Aunt Naomi belong to a special category .
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Language has always been regarded as belonging among these secondary categories .
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Have the students name some other things which belong in each category . 2.
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Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed.
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The essence of any collection of stamps or of teapots must be that each specimen belongs in a distinct category .
church
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Father Barnes will know whether it belongs to the church and with luck there may be prints.
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It should be said immediately that Robertson does not belong to a Pentecostal church .
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The church sends an invitation to any who do not belong to a particular church, but would like to join in.
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Do not mention your religion unless you are applying to work for a religious organization and you also belong to that church .
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Some say that to belong to the kingdom of Heaven is the same as belonging to the Church .
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He belonged to no church and required no worship by those who worked for him.
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Being a member of the kingdom goes beyond simply belonging to any individual Church .
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The members ordinarily share some link like working for the same employer or belonging to the same church .
class
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Most examinees belong to the first class , most examiners to the third.
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Of three of the principal women, Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes , and Cressy to none.
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Others claim that routine white-collar workers still belong to the middle class .
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Rebiya Kadeer also belonged to this ruling class .
club
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Harvey took me out to a sauna club he belonged to.
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He joined the riding club; he somehow got into the club that she belonged to.
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This had to be at a restaurant, because the only club that Richard belonged to was Pratt's.
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And at Scotch Corner, fellow members of motorcycling clubs to which they belong turned out to greet them.
community
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It is whether the pursuit of justice, fairness and efficiency can also deliver belonging , cohesion and community .
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The musicians belonged to indigenous Maya communities decimated by the 36-year-long conflict.
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The people who are losing their homes belong to a settled community with centuries-old traditions.
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Moreover, nation-states belong to the community of nations, whether the United Nations or trading blocs.
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And how do men and women know that they belong to this community ?
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And in the longer term it should try to bring back into favour the notion that we all belong to a community .
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For indigenous peoples, the values and sense of belonging to a community which aspires only to serve the world are paramount.
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More recently, a number of voluntary initiatives have sought to foster a sense of belonging to the community on the part of young people.
family
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No. 7/19 by Alliprandi belonged to the Sternberg family .
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Millions of children belong to families whose income is at or below income support level.
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Women were crazy about him the most beautiful, the wealthiest women who belonged to the great families .
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He belongs to the family Salicaceae and is formally known as Populus alba.
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She belongs to a family descended from free Blacks those released from slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
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They belong to the family of a former employee of the Bishop's Castle Railway.
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Nevertheless, they all belong to the same family , especially when they are contrasted with their neighbour, the Catholic West.
generation
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She belonged to a generation who had fine voices and who were also dramatically credible.
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The girl was a year older but seemed to belong to a different generation .
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I belong to a generation born in Britain or brought here as young children.
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He belonged to the old-fashioned generation which believed in covering itself carefully from the sun.
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They belong to a generation which likes the feel of crisp fivers and tenners in their hands.
group
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This handbook will help to give you an overall view of the businesses of the P&O Group to which you belong .
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It is not the fact that you belong to minority groups , but how you handle them that counts.
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It now belongs to the Wedgwood group .
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I was thirty-three that year and belonged to neither group .
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Most of the countries with viable alcohol programmes are likely to belong to this group .
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Meyer, who belongs to several groups , is known for his diehard devotion to authenticity.
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Many regionals belong to a group of newspapers, such as the Thompson Newspapers Group, and syndicate material.
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According to this approach, any particular individual can belong to many different groups .
house
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Drunk one day, driving her on his Harley, he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London.
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The house had belonged to a farmer whose family had been hit by tragedy.
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It is a fine yeoman's house belonging to the National Trust.
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This will keep heat in the house , where it belongs , and out of the attic. 2.
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The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon, wife of a driving instructor.
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Neighbors said the house belongs to a middle-aged couple with an adult daughter.
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To the large eighteenth-century house that belonged to Patrick Kelly.
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The third collection in the house belongs to Klara Durbeck.
land
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A third group then comes and declares the land belongs to them; they may demand 30,000 rupees.
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And besides, why should these guys get to make plans for state land , which belongs to all of us?
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A local knight called Walter had usurped land belonging to the dependent monastery of Fleury at Sault.
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For 45 years, the land atop South Mountain belonged to the Physioc family.
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His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department.
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His land belonged to her for many years.
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Deeply rooted in peasant culture was the belief that the land should belong to whoever worked it with his own hands.
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The land belongs to the army!
member
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There are 14,500 national members belonging to 343 branches, which have an additional 21,000 branch members.
party
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Yes, some of us belonged to the Party .
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It should also be noted that for the purposes of theft property may belong to more than one party .
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The main question was: did he belong to the Communist Party ?
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If they belong to the party that wins power they may well take on a government office of some kind.
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Let us suppose that representatives belong to political parties .
property
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All the mural fountains were built on the boundaries of properties belonging to the Pease family.
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I learnt then from Jean-Claude that the property had never belonged to the family.
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Like many other historic properties , Hackfall belonged to an owner who reputedly would never sell.
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It should also be noted that for the purposes of theft property may belong to more than one party.
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Earlier this month they attacked property belonging to Coptic Christians, burning their churches, shops and homes.
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Murder; and Theft: dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it.
sense
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In more senses than one they belong to no man's land.
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Unlike most compilation soundtracks, there is a sense that these songs belong together.
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In particular, it is not clear how a sense of well-being and a sense of belonging are connected.
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These systems gave people an identity a place, and a sense of belonging .
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He grew up oppressed by the sense of belonging to a broken culture, deprived of his inheritance.
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It became a meditation on that sense of belonging , of identity, of alienation and how important all of that is.
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All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it.
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For indigenous peoples, the values and sense of belonging to a community which aspires only to serve the world are paramount.
species
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Anyone who could get excited by an annuity scheme must belong to a different species from his own.
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Most often they belong to the following species .
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They might have belonged to a different species .
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Gray moths still could interbreed with black moths, proving that they belonged to the same species .
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The Witnesses of the Total Merge catalogued all those ships believed to belong to other client species of the Capellans.
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The plants offered by this name belong to the species E. berteroi.
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The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host.
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How are we to decide whether populations living in different places belong to the same species ?
union
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All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union , but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers.
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And in the economically dynamic South and West, only 5 percent of the work force belongs to a union .
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They were highly competitive, didn't belong to trade unions and lacked any notion of worker solidarity.
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Credit unions are a force in the Golden State, where 7. 6 million people belong to 773 credit unions.
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And they belonged to no recognised union .
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Individuals must be given greater rights to belong the union of their choice.
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Congregations may belong to a Union of Baptist Churches, but each has considerable autonomy.
world
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They belong to a world a hundred years away from us.
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He had been to school one day and already he was using phrases and assuming roles that belonged to a different world .
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The dances of the four Lovers belong to both worlds .
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They do not belong to the world .
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The shouting voices did not belong to our little world of passionate love.
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Just as the sailing ship belonged to a world before jobs, the space ship belongs to a world after jobs.
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I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world .
■ VERB
feel
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She hung around in their sub-hippy world, camouflaged, but never feeling she belonged .
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I was a fraud, a composite of traits I felt rightfully belonged to these two.
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He had never felt as if he belonged .
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It is unusual for me to participate or to feel I belong if I do.
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I have spent my adult life here but because of little pinpricks I feel I don't belong .
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You see, strange as it may seem, I always felt I belonged here.
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She ascribes much of her feeling of not belonging to class differences rather than to race.
seem
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The glamour of limed oak - creating an atmosphere that seems to belong entirely in the country.
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The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
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But the rest seemed to belong to another artist.
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They seem wholly to belong to where they are.
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Belle-Ile, however, seems to belong to a past era of modest and amateur tourism.
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What a strange sight, but even that seemed to belong where it was.
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The girl was a year older but seemed to belong to a different generation.
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Their very vocabulary was unfamiliar to him, and seemed to belong to fiction and the stage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can you put that back where it belongs?
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I felt I belonged there - I was important there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As if we were all adopted, no one belonged anywhere.
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Clearly the appeal of the Virgo archetype belonged to the spirit of the age.
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Could it be that some of us might like it better if they stayed where they belong ?
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I belonged to the local farmers' club and had taken up curling.
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Over 8,000 people regularly enjoy the benefits of Medau classes - but - only 25% of them belong to the Medau Society.
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The mosque and the Koran belong to women as much as do the heavenly bodies.
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Toussaint had no toys and never asked to play with those belonging to others.