belongings

plural of belonging

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of belongings On Wednesday, Abascal was notified to leave and given 30 minutes to pack her essential belongings. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026 Among Boutte’s belongings, law enforcement allegedly found $1,624 in cash, 141 gift cards, letters addressed to other people and almost 1,700 stamps on rolls and sheets. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026 Authorities also found a map of Chicago and a bottle of sodium cyanide among belongings kept at his family's Los Angeles home. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Days went by without a word from anyone about her belongings. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 During the town hall, Caudle told a sailor who was evacuated from Bahrain that officials are working on retrieving belongings that were left behind because the Navy does not have imminent plans to return to the same level of footprint on the base. — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Residents were advised to prepare to leave, gather important belongings and make arrangements for pets in case the warning was upgraded to an evacuation order. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026 The rising waters of Bui River in the southwest outskirts of Hanoi threatened to flood homes, prompting authorities to deploy hundreds of soldiers to help residents move belongings to higher ground, state media said. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 Closets Without a Purpose Garcia’s definition of a closet without purpose is a space where belongings have piled up without rhyme, reason, or a clear system to help organize whatever is inside. — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belongings
Noun
  • Things are just a little less sinister in the song’s lyrics than in the way things play out on screen.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
  • As Che notes, the crowd is not fully on board, at least not as things get underway.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Red Raiders have been stellar on defense, blanking three opponents and allowing just six points entering last week’s 42-35 win over Cary-Grove that wasn’t decided until the final possession.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • But Awak Kuier and Bueckers made 3-pointers on Dallas’ next two possessions to pull away.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But he and the offensive line were demoralized on a pair of run-stuffs.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The first clues came in the 1970s, when Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking calculated the entropy of black holes — typically a measure of how much stuff fits inside an object.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Thursday's summit could see some announcements on the two countries' goal of taking tariffs off $30 billion in noncritical goods, on financial services and agricultural purchases, Bessent said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The United States slapped a 50% tariff on many goods from Canada this summer – but critical imports, such as potash, crude oil and electricity, were spared.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

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“Belongings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belongings. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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