GATHER in a Sentence

Learn GATHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GATHER
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  At the party tonight, women would gather in corners and whisper discreetly and with malicious pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
3  She must gather herself together enough to tell him that she felt too ill to go to the reception.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
4  The silence fell again and on Melanie's face there were signs of a struggle to gather strength to speak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
9  She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
12  But Madame only set her teeth hard into her under lip, and Edna saw the sweat gather in beads on her white forehead.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVII
13  The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Then a crowd would gather and listen, muttering threats.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  "Without doubt, he could gather no confidence by witnessing our indifference," he said.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
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.