All 8 Uses of
converge
in
Atonement
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Everything converged.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- Nettle cocked his head in the direction of the door and they began to converge on it.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(converge) to come together; or to be adjacent or similar