Example sentences for: congregate

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

  • Take a stroll along the quayside, past the foot of the main steps, along Moll de Levant — where most of Maó’s best restaurants are located — and you’ll turn the corner into Cala Figuera (called “English Cove” in the days of the British Navy) and the Club Marítim, where pleasure craft congregate near the ships’ chandlers, shops, and restaurants that cater to them.

  • Crowds congregate along the promenade and along Dizengoff Street, but there’s much more to do than just people-watch.

  • (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."

  • 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.

  • When teens congregate in tough inner-city schoolyards, their roughneck slang is called agotataki `chin banging.


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