Example Sentences

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"Arithmetic is important, but so is beauty, so is belonging, so is democracy," he had said.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2022

The B is belonging —we need relationships, love, community.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2020

“The expat mentality is belonging to the old country,” Scruton told me, “and the inability to accept that it is changed beyond repair.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2016

“The most important thing is belonging to a community,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2016

For this was his custom: that wheresoever he abided on the Lord's day, if he founded a church there, he called it Domnhach—that is, belonging to the Lord.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James