GATHER in a Sentence
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277 example sentences for GATHER, such as:
1. The boys gathered around the car.
2. The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
3. The ball gathered pace as it rolled down the hill.
4. Then a crowd would gather and listen, muttering threats.
5. I gather his report is highly critical of the trial judge.
2. The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
3. The ball gathered pace as it rolled down the hill.
4. Then a crowd would gather and listen, muttering threats.
5. I gather his report is highly critical of the trial judge.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GATHER
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gather
v. collect in one place
v. increase or develop
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Everybody was riding out Peachtree road to gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting.
2 At the party tonight, women would gather in corners and whisper discreetly and with malicious pleasure.
3 She must gather herself together enough to tell him that she felt too ill to go to the reception.
4 The silence fell again and on Melanie's face there were signs of a struggle to gather strength to speak.
5 Her own stout person and its surrounding implements took up so much room that Lily, to pass her, had to gather up her skirts and brush against the wall.
6 The poor little working-girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life, and build herself a shelter with them, seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence.
7 As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.
8 I remember how, as we bent over the pea-vines, beads of perspiration used to gather on her upper lip like a little moustache.
9 She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them.
10 She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.
11 She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy.
12 But Madame only set her teeth hard into her under lip, and Edna saw the sweat gather in beads on her white forehead.
13 The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean.
14 Then a crowd would gather and listen, muttering threats.
15 "Without doubt, he could gather no confidence by witnessing our indifference," he said.
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1 The campaign for reform should start to gather momentum in the new year.
2 I gather his report is highly critical of the trial judge.
3 We gather up from various sources a great amount of firsthand data.
4 I went to several libraries to gather information about the scheme.
5 The farmers were racing against the rainy season, trying to gather in the summer crops.
6 Cows tend to gather together at one end of a field when it is going to rain.
7 The revival of Ponte is lumped in with the gentrification taking place in parts of inner-city Johannesburg, where hipsters gather at a market on Sundays to coo over minimalist lampshades.
8 On Sunday, Americans once again will gather inside palatial stadiums and around big-screen televisions to worship at the altar of the country's most popular sport.
9 We sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage.
10 Animal protection supporters gathered to protest against hunting.
11 In the evenings, we gathered around the fireplace and talked.
12 The boys gathered around the car.
13 I tried to avoid the back room where the undesirable elements were gathered.
14 The ball gathered pace as it rolled down the hill.
15 The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.