personal belongings
plural noun
: items that belong to someone and that are small enough to be carried
Be sure to take your personal belongings with you when you get off the bus.
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Tourists should also hand over personal belongings without resisting if robbed, travel with a partner or group if possible and not leave food or drinks unattended.
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
McConnell’s personal belongings were also discovered.
—David Chiu, People.com, 13 June 2025
One of seven shallow-draft City Class river ironclads, the USS Cairo sank in 1862 while clearing mines and took with it most of the crew’s personal belongings.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
His letters, his personal belongings, show a sensitivity, a generosity, sometimes a fragility that contradict this cliché.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
McConnell’s personal belongings were also discovered.
—David Chiu, People.com, 13 June 2025
One of seven shallow-draft City Class river ironclads, the USS Cairo sank in 1862 while clearing mines and took with it most of the crew’s personal belongings.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
His letters, his personal belongings, show a sensitivity, a generosity, sometimes a fragility that contradict this cliché.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for personal belongings
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“Personal belongings.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20belongings. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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