Example sentences for: congregate

How can you use “congregate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The smaller boats had no radio or radar, so it was customary, during adverse weather conditions, for the fishermen to congregate around whatever spot at the harbor offered the maximum shelter from the weather of the day.

  • (One thinks of Philip Larkin's poem about a religion based on water: "And I should raise in the east/ A glass of water/ Where any-angled light/ Would congregate endlessly."

  • In the first instance, this is done by presenting the services as being for the poor, including the targeting of outreach efforts on groups and areas in which poor people congregate and live.

  • You might like to plan a dawn visit instead, avoiding at least some of the hawkers who congregate later in the day.

  • It specified as particular points of vulnerability the White House, the Capitol, symbols of capitalism such as Wall Street, critical infrastructure such as power grids, areas where people congregate such as sports arenas, and civil aviation generally.


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