How to Use congregate in a Sentence

congregate

1 of 2 verb

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 3 May 2024