toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

converge
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • Now guards, staffers, and counselors converge on the quad in panic, trying to herd this volatile gathering of kids back to their places, but no one will leave.†   (source)
  • Shizuka gave them an address for Michiko, and they converged on it.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.†   (source)
  • After a while he crawled to where the roofing boards converged with the walls in the corner and rose on his knees and released a stream of urine and watched it disappear into the straw.†   (source)
  • For entertainment, everyone converged at the local clubhouse for bingo, swimming, movies, and concerts.†   (source)
  • Karl F. Sundman later proved the existence of a general solution to the three-body problem in the form of a convergent infinite series, but the series converges so slowly that it is practically useless.†   (source)
  • The crate nearest to us crashed into the snow, and dozens of people came from nowhere to converge on it.†   (source)
  • Naturally, thousands of gunters began to converge on it too.†   (source)
  • When it was clear that all three were converging on us, my heart jumped before sinking very low.†   (source)
  • Fifteen thousand feet in the air, Robert Langdon felt the physical world fade away as all of his thoughts converged on Saunière's mirror-image poem, which was illuminated through the lid of the box. mirrored text Sophie quickly found some paper and copied it down longhand.†   (source)
  • Fred and George converged on Katie.†   (source)
  • Thomas still couldn't get a very good look at the slowly converging Groups A and B up ahead, especially now that he'd lost the bird's-eye view and dust had clouded the air.†   (source)
  • The officials blew their whistles and began converging on her.†   (source)
  • The whole family had converged on the front porch, and I could hardly contain myself.†   (source)
  • Downstairs, the television crews converged on Lawton, who, though bloody, was still unbowed.†   (source)
  • Shafts of light came in from an open skylight and converged about a huge, round, stone table.†   (source)
  • I went for a walk in the hospital parking lot, which was busy and lifted my spirits with all those converging and diverging intentions, even though some of the people in the parking lot were visibly ill or injured.†   (source)
  • In Hasnapur the metaphorical and the literal converge.†   (source)
  • Gray houses run in converging lines to the horizon, bunched as if to fend off cold.†   (source)
  • Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.†   (source)
  • It had baked all afternoon on a table by a south-facing window in the library, and now three fine meandering lines in the glaze, converging like rivers in an atlas, were all that showed.†   (source)
  • Their trajectory is converging.†   (source)
  • Six white chessmen converged on him and kept him from finishing off the boy.†   (source)
  • And I thought of the mix of air that was our front yard, which was daylight, a queasy mother and a cop—it was a convergence of luck that had kept my sister safe so far.†   (source)
  • And just because Michigan's minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn't mean they don't have that other critical trait in abundance.†   (source)
  • Her nerves were frazzled, and all the emotions of the past hour were converging into a single, sickening feeling—exasperation.†   (source)
  • They were still in the silver tunnel, threading and weaving their way through what appeared to be a crisscross warren of converging tunnels.†   (source)
  • Three more boys were converging on him now, and this time they were acting together.†   (source)
  • When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a sunstruck instant that existed now and forever.†   (source)
  • Because as soon as Violet saw the flickering reflection, she remembered the scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light.†   (source)
  • Mike and Jessica and Eric were all there, beginning to converge on us.†   (source)
  • Even Depew, however, did not foresee the true magnitude of the forces that were converging on Burnham and Root.†   (source)
  • Thomas Hardy, a considerably better Victorian writer than Edward B.-L., has a delightful story called "The Three Strangers" (1883) in which a condemned man (escaped), a hangman, and the escapee's brother all converge on a shepherd's house during a christening party.†   (source)
  • In the next few minutes, cars converged on both addresses, their passengers filming their arrival.†   (source)
  • And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added.†   (source)
  • The body converges to a sharp nose.†   (source)
  • Girls from barrios all over converged on the bungalow-type gym.†   (source)
  • A surge of attention, unspoken, identifiable only in a certain convergence of stillness, an inward tensing.†   (source)
  • The back verandah of the History House (where a posse of Touchable policemen converged, where an inflatable goose was burst) had been enclosed and converted into the airy hotel kitchen.†   (source)
  • Fate has borne us to this convergence.†   (source)
  • Single moving points emerging from the forest, converging upon the meadow below where he and Sarayu stood.†   (source)
  • The walls soared on all sides, converging in a point many meters above her head, higher than even the roof above the solar fields.†   (source)
  • Every so often, I could see the man's fist, where all the balloon strings converged, and I could see he had them securely twisted together and in a tight grip.†   (source)
  • We converged on the laundry room.†   (source)
  • But liberated from claustrophobic closeness by day, exploring apart, they converged with more warmth at night, even if sometimes this warmth felt like that between relatives rather than between lovers.†   (source)
  • Two days later, we were part of a squadron of three hundred bombers converging on Frankfurt.†   (source)
  • As Jormundur began shouting orders, Arya and Angela converged upon Nasuada.†   (source)
  • Cars converged on Holcomb from half the counties in the state, and from Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska.†   (source)
  • The lights of the city were blacked out, but the glow of many uncontrolled fires and the headlights of converging ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks illuminated a devastated city-scape.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of women converged on the Central Pass Office in downtown Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • BEFORE LONG, TRUCKS converge on the lot.†   (source)
  • When the defense converged, Mandela flicked the ball to Sebajden, a wiry but tenacious Kosovar midfielder, who volleyed the shot: goal.†   (source)
  • Convergence.†   (source)
  • Like an obelisk towards which the principal streets of a town converge, the strong will of a proud spirit stands prominent and commanding in the middle of the art of war.†   (source)
  • Ghostly laughter floated through the air with the tainted smoke of sweet grass, and the spirits began to converge again on Heath.†   (source)
  • I slam into her back, and she goes shooting forward, rolling toward the opposite shoulder, just as two vans converge, about to pass each other.†   (source)
  • Second, the deeper water would make for better acoustical conditions, opening up to them the distant sonar convergence zone.†   (source)
  • Consider the factors that converged to kill Prudence Lemokouno.†   (source)
  • We drew as many important details as we could, and drew in perspective: Nearby objects are larger than distant objects; horizontal parallel lines converge and vanish in the distance.†   (source)
  • Atop Nob Hill, the posh Fairmont sits at the only intersection where all the city's cable car lines converge, an apt location for the evening that would tie together so many strands of Mortenson's life.†   (source)
  • We were only converging for a few weeks, fleeting.†   (source)
  • They retreated in the face of a converging Japanese naval and infantry force.†   (source)
  • They seemed to him to run like the wind and to grow swiftly larger and darker, as their courses converged with his.†   (source)
  • This time, her eyes went wide as she took in the convergence of blue-and-whites outside.†   (source)
  • They converged in the center of the city, shouting in a single voice that the people united would never be defeated.†   (source)
  • She was a tall, strapping girl with long hair and incandescent blue veins converging populously beneath her cocoa-colored skin where the flesh was most tender, and she kept cursing and shrieking and jumping high up into the air on her bare feet to keep right on hitting him on the top of his head with the spiked heel of her shoe.†   (source)
  • The next two, though, are ticklish-one dealing with various series equations and whether their functions would converge or diverge; on the other, he needs to locate the power series in two functions.†   (source)
  • Although it would've been fun to stick around and laugh at him, the man had drawn too much attention, and now adults were converging on us from all across the station.†   (source)
  • It will be in the shape of a V with the wings converging on Operating Theater 3.†   (source)
  • Paths of grass separated them from one another, giving the town the appearance of a giant wheel with spokes converging on a large, circular building at the hub.†   (source)
  • And they now converged on Williamspori: along with tens of thousands of fans from all over the world.†   (source)
  • Happiness is not a situation to be longed for, or a convergence of lucky happenstance.†   (source)
  • And I stand in the circle where three roads converge near the statue, where we drilled four-abreast down the smooth asphalt and pivoted and entered the chapel on Sundays, our uniforms pressed, shoes shined, minds laced up, eyes blind like those of robots to visitors and officials on the low, whitewashed reviewing stand.†   (source)
  • Loyalists by the hundreds converged to welcome the invaders, many of them bringing long-hidden supplies of all kinds.†   (source)
  • Nine days after the big lie, as the police cruisers and divers converged on the lake, the water looked almost black.†   (source)
  • There was a pattern of strange convergence, the strangest being the inclusion of a frightened, unscrupulous attorney named Gates.†   (source)
  • Two sets of footprints converged at the mouth of the long driveway that led up to the stables.†   (source)
  • Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • From all sides the rosey warriors converged, with grey steel in their hands and terror behind their eyes.†   (source)
  • He went on: 'There's a party converging there now.†   (source)
  • — "I think we should take each other to the limit to see if we converge," Finn said.†   (source)
  • By pressing her face to the pane, she could see the whole of the Taggart Building, its lines converging abruptly to its distant pinnacle in the sky.†   (source)
  • These insights led Bailey and Cukor -Avila to conclude that urban black speech appeared to be diverging from rather than converging with white speech, as a result of the great black migration to the North.†   (source)
  • In the sky the three suns were about to converge on each other.†   (source)
  • But unlike the cages in Lomboko, these stood at the center of a city, Havana, and at the convergence point of two great open-air markets.†   (source)
  • You leave the copy store quickly, as if the police might have traced your email, as if they're throwing themselves into their squad cars and converging on your location.†   (source)
  • In a wide depression where several long trenches converged, two dozen infantrymen and a few officers had gathered around a bonfire.†   (source)
  • Judging their speed and the distance remaining, Cassius estimated that they would converge on the wide field just below the principle city's northern gates.†   (source)
  • I took a couple steps backwards as the bailiffs began to slowly converge.†   (source)
  • They all seemed to be converging at the southern end of Georgetown, near the Potomac.†   (source)
  • Phil was born and raised in Caddo Parish in Northwest Louisiana, near where the state converges with Arkansas and Texas.†   (source)
  • From all over the system, VDA and UNG beams converged on the Troy in flashes of fire.†   (source)
  • The deer were clearly reluctant to be driven, and several herds made determined efforts to buck the line; but on each occasion the two nearest wolves converged toward the recalcitrant caribou and forced them to continue north.†   (source)
  • Little Elk finding him, flashlights converging, Little Bear bawling under a giant spruce.†   (source)
  • The villagers' peasant minds converged on marriage.†   (source)
  • Who are we that so much should converge on our little deaths?†   (source)
  • Randy walked toward the back door and the Henrys converged on him, their faces apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Worth, Texas, when it was alleged that Oklahoma City was in flames and carloads were converging on those two cities.†   (source)
  • The trade routes that had once converged on the great harbours, and later on the great airports, had finally dispersed into an intricate web-work covering the whole world with no major nodal points.†   (source)
  • Unearthly siren-sounds converged on them from all over the night, "There is a face," Hilarius said, "that I can make.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Sophie attributed the convergence of their paths simply to the failure of chiropractic medicine.†   (source)
  • As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge.†   (source)
  • On a raked level above it is the courthouse square, the Main Street and the converging streets of the town.†   (source)
  • …the pre-plan — cutting out one squad, heading it for the crater, starting the rest of the first section in a two-squad countermarch while keeping the second section in a rotational sweep as pre-planned but with four miles increased depth; got the sections moving, dropped them and caught the first squad as it converged on the anchor corner crater, gave it its instructions; cut back to the section leaders in plenty of time to give them new beacon bearings at which to make their turns.†   (source)
  • His picture--never really inspected--had been of clean-eyed young men and immaculate girls, all in academic robes and converging on a white temple on the crown of a wooded hill in the evening.†   (source)
  • A small tin switch box and a black fuel tank were all there was to mark the place as a junction; the tracks were double and did not converge again until they were hidden behind the bends at either end of the clearing.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the whole world seemed to break into flame; from everywhere, from above and beside them, massive lights converged, bursting upon them with savage accuracy.†   (source)
  • But on one point their thoughts converged.†   (source)
  • Villagers from all round, like us, were converging towards the bonfire to be lit there; already smoke wisps were curling towards the clouds, torches were beginning to flare.†   (source)
  • The crowd converged on the movie star
  • Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power
  • The serpopards had converged at the left-hand door and were intently sniffing the handle.†   (source)
  • Streams of people are converging to form a river that flows only downward.†   (source)
  • Emmett, Rosalie, and Esme all converged hastily around where Edward stood with Alice and me.†   (source)
  • They gathered together, blocking me from view as they converged.†   (source)
  • As Louie read the story, all of the fury within him converged.†   (source)
  • It's open now, exposing a broad V of skin converging from her shoulders.†   (source)
  • The group arrived beneath a towering pillar, and their lights converged on an opening in the floor.†   (source)
  • Like wagon trains converging on the Santa Fe Trail.†   (source)
  • The Glass Eyes converged and Dodge and the chessmen lost themselves in the urgency of battle.†   (source)
  • Others with their own answers also converged on the barrio.†   (source)
  • They converged on my position with bared teeth and blood in their eyes.†   (source)
  • In the 1990s, diabetes and heart disease converged on him.†   (source)
  • There was a mood of intense concentration, minds converging on a single compelling idea.†   (source)
  • I took my hands off the controls and watched as all four ghosts converged on Pac-Man.†   (source)
  • It rapidly shnnks, all sides converging inward toward the right pupil.†   (source)
  • The weapon was seen; shouts followed, men converged, fists and hands separating the combatants.†   (source)
  • In certain areas our interests converged.†   (source)
  • As one, the Circle converged on the woodpile.†   (source)
  • But then suddenly everyone began to move in closer, converging, and I knew Eli had arrived.†   (source)
  • The Urgals converged on them, blocking Eragon's view as he stared with rising horror and fear.†   (source)
  • Bythe time Eragon dispatched them, eight of the elves had converged upon their location.†   (source)
  • In February 1937, all of these new social and technological forces were converging.†   (source)
  • At the top, she saw a narrow hallway, its walls converging to an unlighted door.†   (source)
  • Black blood spurted as it withdrew, but the others converged in a wild snapping and snarling.†   (source)
  • Angel and Norberto converged on it, but at the last second Norberto waived off his pitcher.†   (source)
  • In the warm yellow light it appeared buttery, its heavy paper folds converging to pleasing corners.†   (source)
  • Dozens of goblins followed suit, converging on the group as they fled toward the hangar.†   (source)
  • Both men converged on the swinging doors.†   (source)
  • He followed the roads with his finger, all converging on that one small town.†   (source)
  • The boys converged in a cluster behind Harlon, who bent low at the base.†   (source)
  • With the Blue Springs defense converging around him, there had to be an open player somewhere.†   (source)
  • They converged on him, naked blades outstretched, snarls on their faces.†   (source)
  • She stared at him, bewilderment and fear converged in her look.†   (source)
  • When the door closed, Horst and Baldor converged on Roran.†   (source)
  • Max stopped as three glowspheres converged, circling about him like three great spotlights.†   (source)
  • Two men breaking through the crowds, converging, brokering death.†   (source)
  • Max and David converged on Mr. McDaniels's cot and sat on its edge.†   (source)
  • Mohammed, Prince, and Qendrim converged, and Robin sprinted to catch up.†   (source)
  • Nine separate operations have independently converged on the city of Istanbul in Turkey.†   (source)
  • With a bloodcurdling shriek, it launched itself at Max while the others converged like piranhas.†   (source)
  • Across the converging rue du Bac, a red-domed booth with posters covering the sides.†   (source)
  • Fate is converging upon us, he said to Saphira.†   (source)
  • But they were closing in, the great mass converging.†   (source)
  • How many have lost their lives because they crossed your converging paths?†   (source)
  • Saphira flared her wings, looping right side up so she faced the other two as they converged on her.†   (source)
  • Blurred images from the past converged with the terrible reality of the present, driving him insane.†   (source)
  • Spurred by terror, the vyes converged on Max, who stood ready.†   (source)
  • Both men converged on Bourne as he backed into the deserted elevator.†   (source)
  • The gulls converged; just under the surface a newspaper slowly went down with its drowned news.†   (source)
  • Storm spirits were converging—at least a dozen of them, whirling around a big public art installation.†   (source)
  • The Heads of House converged on her; there was a great bang and a puff of purple smoke, which cleared to reveal Susan sobbing, reunited with her leg but looking horrified.†   (source)
  • He loved the Fourth of July block party, when the whole East End converged for a day and night of games and music and grilled chicken and ribs and sweet-potato pie and dancing until the last firecracker, and then some.†   (source)
  • Progress through the press of bodies was slow, and then, just as they converged, their way to the door was blocked by a tight wall of backs forming around one man.†   (source)
  • What held me fast in these brief library-book accounts was the element of chance: random disasters, mine and his, converging on the same unseen point, the big bang as my father called it, not with any kind of sarcasm or dismissiveness but instead a respectful acknowledgment for the powers of fortune that governed his own life.†   (source)
  • "It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail.†   (source)
  • Ships began converging on U.S. ports from all over the world bearing exposition cargoes of the most exotic kind.†   (source)
  • Karl F. Sundman later proved the existence of a general solution to the three-body problem in the form of a convergent infinite series, but the series converges so slowly that it is practically useless.†   (source)
  • All of them converged on the carriers in a wave of fur and claws—climbing up their copper legs, scratching their backs, clinging to their faces, and weighing down the sedan box.†   (source)
  • Mr. Caton had done himself especially proud on one of them, cutting all the waste metal off it until the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside.†   (source)
  • I can see no one else converging from my side, although the gold horn blocks a good portion of my view.†   (source)
  • When I made it to the front steps of the school there were already 80 to 100 students converging there.†   (source)
  • Burnham and an army of workers and guards converged on the building and together spent the night fighting the leaks.†   (source)
  • Leon was already moving away, and as Cecilia and Paul Marshall followed him and converged on the gap in the thicket she said, "I'd rather have something bitter.†   (source)
  • The faction of Alyssians headed by Generals Doppel and Ganger had converged on the scene and, together with Hatter, Molly, and the others, had defeated The Glass Eyes.†   (source)
  • Quentin and I still weren't quite ready to work the equations for a De Laval nozzle in my book, but I got the machinists working, instead, on a new nozzle with deeper countersink cuts, hoping we might acquire at least some of the attributes of the converging-diverging design.†   (source)
  • A steady stream of them poured out of the stargate, while others converged on the area from every direction in the sky.†   (source)
  • The clarity of everything she saw or touched or heard was certainly not prompted by the fresh beginnings and abundance of early summer; it was an inflamed awareness of an approaching conclusion, of events converging on an end point.†   (source)
  • Many linguists have tried to understand Babel, the question of why human language tends to fragment, rather than converging on a common tongue?†   (source)
  • A trajectory from Watts converged with the more-thancentury-old fight of the Mexican people for their own freedoms to ripen into the Chicano Movement as manifested in East L.A. And what a time it was to be in East L.A.!†   (source)
  • As it pulled into the station, someone rang the village firebell, and soon a large force of men armed with clubs, pistols, and shotguns converged on the train.†   (source)
  • A Swedish engineer, Carl Gustav De Laval, had shown that by adding a divergent passage to a converging nozzle (one that necked down to a narrow throat) the expansion of the fluid (or gas) coming out of the throat would be transformed into jet kinetic energy.†   (source)
  • Competition for the few jobs available had intensified as thousands of unemployed men from around the country—unhappily bearing the label "hobo," derived possibly from the railroad cry "ho, boy"—converged on Chicago in hopes of getting exposition work.†   (source)
  • Less than a half hour after Art3mis's score increase, the entire Sixer fleet was spotted converging on Sector Seven.†   (source)
  • This statement is translated and moves like a wave through the some eight hundred and ninety-six Filipinos who have now converged on the area.†   (source)
  • The one-way flow of people with a single purpose, the constant self-important traffic in the air, the extravagant cloud advertising their destination, suggested to his tired but overactive mind some long-forgotten childhood treat, a carnival or sports event on which they were all converging.†   (source)
  • Old railroad men still called it Chicago Junction or Junction Grove or simply the Junction, for the eight railroad lines that converged within its borders, but after the Civil War residents grew weary of the industrial resonance of the name.†   (source)
  • A fierce battle cry rose from the sea of avatars around us and they all surged forward, converging on the Sixer army from every direction.†   (source)
  • Beyond her sister, far beyond the lake, the driveway curved across the park, narrowed and converged over rising ground to a point where a tiny shape, made formless by the warping heat, was growing, and then flickered and seemed to recede.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)