belong to something

Examples of belong

belong
Material culture, by definition, belongs both to the ethereal realm of culture and to the material world.
When the time interval was 72 h, about 80% of the parasitoids emerging belonged to the species that oviposited first.
The sentences were mixed in a way that the following sentences never belonged to the same group.
The diffusion of that technology belongs to the history of the inter-war years.
As the mekake, however, she belonged to her birth family under the authority of her brother.
Listening often belongs to music history, which was a difficult subject for many participants.
Advocates on both sides and belonging to all political parties took part in the stem-cell research dispute.
If, therefore, the information belongs to the patient, some justification is needed before her autonomy is compromised.
According to the norms, the children belonged to the lowest 20% of their age group.
Subsumption into larger and larger bodies undermines the sense of "belonging" that is a key component of identity.
Examples belonging to category (ii) tend to indicate existential truths, the necessity being unalterable.
In (11), however, the determiner sequence occurs with the modifying noun chemistry and not with the head noun belonging to that modifier.
Youths belonging to the experiential profiles varied in their reported levels of antisocial behavior.
A second subsample of 8 children belonging to the same "biased" sample was scored using this coding system.
On the basis of this excer pt alone, we can assume that the language belongs to an area with initial voicing of [f] to [v].
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