Example Sentences

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This trio is the heart of McCullers’s gorgeous rendition of unbelonging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

This sense of unbelonging is, in fact, what binds us.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Willa’s sense of unbelonging is deepened by her parents’ divorce and the separate families they start with their respective new partners, leaving her dangling between half siblings.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021

She found solace writing stories in school, and listening to pop-punk artists whose songs channelled a familiar sense of unbelonging; Pink was a special obsession.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 31, 2017

My contented mood wavers, and abruptly I have a sensation of unbelonging.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu