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.
• Hang your trap on tree branches where the wasps like to congregate.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• To show off for females, the male birds congregate at an area known as a lek.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Avoid hiking through tall grass and dense brush where ticks like to congregate 2.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2023
• There is plenty of room to congregate inside & out on the deck.
  — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• In the early summer, both bass species congregate in and around grass lines to feed.
  — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
• Six flies congregated in the airspace by an ice machine.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
• Like a mountain peak, sharp and pointy, where dark matter congregates.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026
• Guests can congregate around the center island or at the breakfast bar.
  — Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2022
• Gone are the days of congregating around a hearth or a fireplace, Freyinger says.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• 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
• Many whales congregate year after year along the same stretches of coastline.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• That’s where his students would congregate, meet and do their work together.
  — Vulture, 19 Oct. 2022
• They’re often also sold in town squares, where food vendors congregate.
  — Isa Zapata, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• 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
• On a good sunset evening, at least a dozen vehicles may congregate along the roadway edge.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
• Somewhere behind thick walls, crowds congregate; right here, someone else walks alone.
  — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
• There was no privacy in the Hall, and there were no places to congregate indoors.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Those 16 and over can soak up the sun by the adult pool, while families tend to congregate around the main pool.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
• When deer congregate and eat in large numbers, the risk of illness spread increases.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2025
• The berries attract plenty of birds, which is nice, but the birds then tend to congregate in the tree and leave behind a mess of their own.
  — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
• Slugs often congregate under the cardboard and are easy to collect.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2026
• Police cars can be seen congregating in the parking lot below.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
• So having places to congregate and hang out in a safe way in downtown Woodstock is just amazing.
  — Emily McLeod, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Lunch was served in the classrooms to prevent students from congregating.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Elk and bighorn sheep often congregate in larger numbers on frozen bodies of water, such as lakes and ponds.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
• When bears congregate in high numbers, even though food is abundant, the bear pecking order is on display.
  — Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022

congregate

2 of 2 adjective

• Best to keep them at home and not put them in a congregate facility.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Find out where your ideal relationships congregate and who has the keys to this kingdom.
  — Jared Yellin, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The non-congregate shelter in Laurel will act as overflow for this shelter as well.
  — Dennis Valera, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Face coverings should still be used in congregate settings such as prisons and homeless shelters.
  — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2021
• Companies like Meta will provide large platforms where people will work, play and congregate.
  — Dar Meshi, The Conversation, 14 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
• Efforts to reinstate the congregate lunch service are under way.
  — cleveland, 17 June 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
• Plumbing and electrical systems must reroute from large, congregate areas to each new apartment or condo.
  — Noah Arroyo, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Perl notes that congregate settings like schools can be significant drivers for epidemics and pandemics.
  — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
• The hotels would replace a 275-bed congregate shelter, Agustin said.
  — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 22 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That includes $15 million the city spent on non-congregate shelter in various hotels.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The success of this multimodal Covid-19 control can serve as a guide for other congregate settings.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Oct. 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
• Thousands of leopard sharks congregate during the summer in the shallow waters off La Jolla.
  — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Some resisted transfer to what is called a congregate shelter, where people sleep in a large room with or without partitions separating the beds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Officials are hoping to use the non-congregate sheltering effort to inform how the city may operate a future shelter.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 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
• Hotels, abandoned by business travelers and tourists, were used to house people who would otherwise be sleeping in congregate shelters or on pads arranged on the floor of a church basement.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• The motel will provide individual rooms for homeless seniors, an alternative to the dorm-like setting of most of the city’s congregate shelter.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022