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belt

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noun (2)

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as in sash
a strip of flexible material (as leather) worn around the waist a drugstore cowboy who loves his fancily decorated belt

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as in neck
a broad geographical area that part of the country is sometimes called "the farm belt" because of the number of farms there

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belt

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Recent Examples of belt
Noun
Authorities identified the victim as 48-year-old Jasmine Black, a seasoned skydiver with more than 160 jumps under her belt, according to Upson County Sheriff Dan Kilgore. Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025 Swap in a button-down shirt, leather belt, and heels instead. René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 24 June 2025
Verb
Roomy through the hips and thighs yet cut to skim your body’s curves, this jumpsuit offers plenty of room to move, with a slim cut and belted waist made to flatter. Elaina Verhoff, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025 Erivo sang an original song, did bits about George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck, made fun of Jonathan Groff’s spit-singing, and belted a Dreamgirls parody. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for belt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt
Verb
  • Earlier, in the fourth, Chisholm hit his fourth homer in his last five games.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 July 2025
  • Bregman hit 11 home runs in 226 plate appearances, a rate of one every 20.5 at bats.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • The styler uses the brand’s airflow technology to attract and wrap the hair around the barrel to curl, wave, smooth, and dry without extreme heat—much like its coveted blow-dryer.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 July 2025
  • Director Mark Waters‘ forthcoming feature Hershey has wrapped principal photography after filming for over seven weeks throughout Hershey’s home state of Pennsylvania.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Two new friends spent the afternoon chatting, licking our deliciously unexpected delights and beginning a life-long bond.
    Susan Cunningham Euker, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2025
  • The viral post opens with a quiet, intimate moment: the Labrador sits beside her puppy, gently licking her head.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • His role in Days of Thunder was that of a young driver, Cole Trickle, who was new to racing.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
  • Although Fraser-Pryce is known for contesting the 200-meter dash at her country’s championships, she’s opted not to race in it this year, following her decision not to do so last year as well.
    Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • On the witness stand, Ventura described Combs stomping on her face in the back of an Escalade in 2009 and kicking and punching her repeatedly over the years.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • The 48-year-old father of three Marines was working a landscaping job when he was approached – before officers subdued Barranco and punched him multiple times in the back of the head, footage shows Barranco running while holding a weedwacker.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.
    Thomas Urbain, Fortune, 29 June 2025
  • The president also lashed out at economists who predicted his administration’s tariffs could cause a recession.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • For such projects, L.A. County is expediting permitting timelines to speed up fire recovery.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
  • Cynthia, seeing Carmen and Julius bleeding, sped to the hospital, one minute away, but Carmen was pronounced dead on arrival.
    Sally Ventura June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • But, everyone's mostly aware, that many celebrities get five-figure treatments and then launch skincare lines, slapping their names on them.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The product was fresh, the money real, and every A&R man from New York to Memphis knew the formula: Find a pretty face, slap a catchy chorus behind it, and watch the allowances roll in.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025

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“Belt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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