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Example sentences for: belonged

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Until 1802 the town belonged to the Order of the Knights of St. John, whose influence is evident in many handsome stone buildings in the center.
According to the elaborate ethnic spoils system of those days, the North Side House seat belonged to the Germans.
For one thing, it would anger the teachers' unions, a powerful constituency in the Democratic Party: A full 525 of the 4,293 delegates at the party's Chicago convention belonged to either the NEA or the American Federation of Teachers.
There was no question that we in the Class of '70 regarded most of the people in the Class of '68 as the last of old Yale--they belonged more to our parents' world than to ours.
From a study of their plants and animals, the 19th-century naturalist Alfred Wallace divided the Indonesian islands into a western group, regarded as part of southeast Asia, and an eastern group, which belonged geographically to Australia/Oceania.