How to Use congregate in a Sentence

congregate

1 of 2 verb
Definition of congregatenext
Synonyms for congregatenext
  • It's a place where the homeless congregate.
  • Skiers congregated around the lodge's fireplace.
  • In one of the wheels of the stove, 15 roaches congregated.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The cats congregate near the nesting sites and kill the hatchlings, which are easy prey for the felines.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • To show off for females, the male birds congregate at an area known as a lek.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Hang your trap on tree branches where the wasps like to congregate.
    — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Gone are the days of congregating around a hearth or a fireplace, Freyinger says.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • There is plenty of room to congregate inside & out on the deck.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Across the first half and most of the second half, the marsh-like conditions forced players to congregate closer to the ball.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Avoid hiking through tall grass and dense brush where ticks like to congregate 2.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • There was no privacy in the Hall, and there were no places to congregate indoors.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The squeegee is especially deft in the corners and at the tops of crown molding where mounds of dust like to congregate.
    — Shanna Shipin, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Guests can congregate around the center island or at the breakfast bar.
    — Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Outside their rooms, passengers can congregate on the bridge, the galley, or in the dining room and lounge.
    — Karen Catchpole, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Many of the Venezuelan migrants congregate outside a thatch-roof soup kitchen opened just a few months ago by an aid group.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The whales – the world’s largest living creatures – congregate off the southern tip of the island nation year-round, in an area that many ships pass through.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2022
  • My flight leaving Houston is delayed because bees have congregated on the tip of one of the wings.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • The fairways separate the hotel from a shimmering strand of beach where sand plovers congregated on the rocks and seals bobbed in the waves.
    — Aaron Hicklin, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Many whales congregate year after year along the same stretches of coastline.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The kitchen has always felt like a place of comfort where everyone can congregate and feel at home.
    — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The first structural engineer who inspected the building told Wulf and his team that the church was not a safe place for groups to congregate.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Sheila Dillon, the city’s housing chief, said about 150 people congregate in the area daily, and that many of them are not homeless.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Venice will place a 25-person limit on the size of groups that can congregate in the city, the Venice City Council said in a statement Saturday.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In the wake of Lord’s death, Queen Creek police pledged extra patrols in areas where teens congregate.
    — Madeline Morrison, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Prior to the streaming boom, writers congregated in rooms to discuss the path that a show is taking.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 July 2023
  • When the water temperature warms into the 50s, the fish begin to congregate and spawn.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The eat-in island with room for up to five transforms the kitchen from a place to prepare meals to a gathering place for friends or family to congregate.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
  • Meta has got a lot riding on the idea that people in the future will want to congregate in digital worlds with their colleagues or loved ones.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • To ensure that many worms congregate at the same time, the species synchronizes its reproductive timing with the cycles of the moon.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
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congregate

2 of 2 adjective
  • In the meantime, because of the law, the state is on the hook to pay for any stays in congregate care settings that last longer than two weeks.
    — Ed Williams, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
  • There are places to fight, and places to sleep when you’ve been cast out of the congregate bedroom where five to six couples sleep side by side.
    — Curbed, 21 July 2022
  • Best to keep them at home and not put them in a congregate facility.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Mike Feuer, acknowledge that the scale of the need means the city can’t totally discount congregate settings.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • The hotels would replace a 275-bed congregate shelter, Agustin said.
    — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Find out where your ideal relationships congregate and who has the keys to this kingdom.
    — Jared Yellin, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Several months after vaccines were first rolled out for health care workers and those in congregate care settings, some parts of the signup process have changed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Her team has been worried that the move to get people back inside congregate spaces was premature.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The success of this multimodal Covid-19 control can serve as a guide for other congregate settings.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The coalition has taken a leadership role in the effort as the city seeks to shut down its congregate shelter at Sullivan Arena.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Where stars congregate is a dusty place; luckily, Webb’s infrared eye will allow scientists to peer past the dusty curtain and see through it all.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The congregate service, held in its offices where anyone could come in to grab a meal, is currently suspended due to the pandemic.
    — Neetish Basnet, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • What to expect:A traditional sit-down congregate meal at tables with all the trimmings and fixings.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Thousands of leopard sharks congregate during the summer in the shallow waters off La Jolla.
    — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Many questions have been left unanswered, such as how the advice might apply to schools or people in congregate settings such as nursing homes or prisons.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • There have been public health concerns about spreading the coronavirus in congregate settings, and currently only about 60% of the beds the agency is paying for are in use.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2022
  • That includes $15 million the city spent on non-congregate shelter in various hotels.
    — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Companies like Meta will provide large platforms where people will work, play and congregate.
    — Dar Meshi, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Efforts to reinstate the congregate lunch service are under way.
    — cleveland, 17 June 2022
  • Face coverings should still be used in congregate settings such as prisons and homeless shelters.
    — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2021
  • Darling says congregate housing does not work because the vast majority of homeless people won’t move without a room of their own.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Cuyahoga County was flagged for just two of the indicators being tracked - the two-week case rate and the share of cases outside of congregate living facilities.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Preventing a child’s placement in a congregate facility due to a lack of available foster homes.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Since the 1960s, commercial hotel rooms have mostly been used to shelter families when there’s no longer room for them in congregate shelter settings.
    — Megan Evershed, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Three decades after the Tompkins Square riots, the housing crisis has become only more dire, while fear of the congregate shelter system has remained unchanged.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022
  • City health care workers and employees in congregate setting such as group homes will face earlier deadlines.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
  • Liberals, by contrast, who tend to fear the pandemic more, might see doctors’ offices as dangerous congregate settings and seek to avoid them.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Feb. 2021
  • That, the judge noted, would result in more migrants being processed in congregate settings where contagious disease can be spread.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc, 15 June 2022
  • Plumbing and electrical systems must reroute from large, congregate areas to each new apartment or condo.
    — Noah Arroyo, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Tars doesn’t want the 9th Circuit to embrace a view that temporary congregate shelter, not housing, is a solution for homeless people.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021

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