Example Sentences

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“The City of West Hollywood has always believed that Pride belongs to the community,” the joint statement said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

But in her public statements, the governor argues that most of the blame for the violence belongs to ICE—instead of the protesters who came to Newark itching for a fight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

The episode belongs to a much longer lineage of banned books about race and the color line in the South and other parts of the country.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

Each box is marked with an alphanumeric code that tells a dabbawala where it came from, where it is going, which floor of which building it belongs to and how to get it back again.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

“If Leigh the Bard was the guardian of the first key, does that mean that Sinchi Victorel belongs to the second one?”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova