Sample sentences for CONGREGATE

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Definition

come together as a group

The planned demonstration never materialized because a heavy presence of police and soldiers made it impossible for protesters to congregate.

congregate = gather together

congregated = came together

He and his groupmates congregated by the tables in front of the Auditorium and took their packaged food.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

congregated = came together

Papa and the men who lived on the ranch would congregate below her window, their rich, sweet voices singing Las Martanitas, the birthday song.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

congregate = gather as a group

Between classes, Louie, Jordan, and their friends congregated near the administration building, sitting at the foot of the statue of Tommy Trojan, the symbol of USC.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

congregated = came together

When he finished, the guys turned and started to congregate at the mouth of the tunnel, their voices alive with excitement.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

congregate = come together

there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

congregated = came together

About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees

congregated = come together

In the compound, the POWs were congregating in joyful anticipation.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

congregating = coming together

It was in the quiet at the end of the day, when we began to congregate in the open space before climbing into our caves.
London, Jack -- Before Adam

congregate = gather together

True, he said; but then the multitude is seldom willing to congregate unless they get a little honey.
Plato -- The Republic
Sailors were shouldering the luggage, and people were beginning to congregate.
Woolf, Virginia -- The Voyage Out
Hagrid added sharply, heading now toward the foot of the Astronomy Tower, where a small crowd was congregating.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
There is fear in the hate and impatience which impels the action of the mob congregated upon the streets beyond that window!
Richard Wright -- Native Son
I see stark-nude young witches congregate, And old ones, veiled and hidden shrewdly: On my account be kind, nor treat them rudely!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
We were not allowed to "congregate" in the prison yard, but down the road we stopped both cars.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
Were men intended, then, to congregate in few places, to squabble and to bicker and breed the discontents that led to injustice, hatred, and war?
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
The sparks congregated at trauma points, sinking into the skin.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
Not knowing what else to do with ourselves, we drifted after her and congregated around the door, which had been left open a crack.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
There is no place to dart into or congregate.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved

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