Get to know Congregating better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like congregation or assembly.
Congregating meaning
present participle and gerund of congregate
Synonyms of Congregating
Using Congregating
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of congregate
- Useful related words include: congregation, assembly, assemblage, gathering.
- In the example corpus, congregating often appears in combinations such as: congregating in, from congregating, were congregating.
Context around Congregating
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Congregating
- In this selection, "congregating" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, collectives, outside, outside and via stand out and add context to how "congregating" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 100 people congregating and there and and no congregating in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "congregating" sits close to words such as aas, abaco and abramovich, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with congregating
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And with the lockdown congregating at the mosques is impossible. (10 words)
Police officers in Nepal are trained to prevent Tibetans from congregating. (11 words)
Authorities scolded residents of Toronto for congregating in parks and other spaces last weekend. (14 words)
In this new socially distanced/health conscious version, tickets sales are limited to 44 people with distancing seating in every other row, there will be no intermission and no congregating in the lobby before, during or after the show. (39 words)
Writer RJ Smith, who moved to L.A. in the early 1990s to work at LA Weekly, said he began noticing groups of people congregating out on the sidewalk in front of Tropical when he first got here. (38 words)
However parents took to social media to vent their shock and disappointment after turning up to find no temperature checking in place and little social distancing, with large groups of people congregating in close proximity to each other. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Most communities begin off as on-line collectives, congregating via chat apps corresponding to Discord, which was initially popularized by on-line gaming communities.
Not all were involved in fights and scuffles, but there were certainly 100 people congregating and there were a number of fights that broke out," he said.
Police officers in Nepal are trained to prevent Tibetans from congregating.
Roughly 170,000 people across the state are homeless and most of them sleep outside, congregating in tents or other makeshift structures or in cars and RVs that leave people especially vulnerable to climate extremes.
The UWU on Monday posted a video to X, formerly Twitter, accusing Inghams of placing tubs of rotting chicken guts next to where striking workers were congregating in an attempt to stink them out.
This has prompted the National Capital District Metropolitan Superintendent Silva Sika to issue instructions to police officers to make sure they do raids at the betelnut markets and stop people from congregating at these illegal markets.
Videos shared on social media of the immediate aftermath of the quake, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed people fearfully running out of a shopping center, restaurants, and apartment buildings and congregating outside.
Writer RJ Smith, who moved to L.A. in the early 1990s to work at LA Weekly, said he began noticing groups of people congregating out on the sidewalk in front of Tropical when he first got here.
Protesters met at the south of Park Lane, holding banners calling for a “ceasefire now” and chanting “free, free Palestine”, before congregating outside the Israeli embassy where speeches were made.
The capital’s residents have been urged to avoid congregating on Tower Bridge and London Bridge, in a bid to see the fireworks, which in previous years have become severely overcrowded.
And with the lockdown congregating at the mosques is impossible.
Another man, who did not wish to be named, highlighted that it was almost as if the kids owned the street now and were congregating there as “there were no decent facilities for them to go to”.
At present the game is scheduled for Goodison on Jun 21, but there have been calls from police chiefs to move it to a neutral venue to avoid fans congregating outside in violation of social distancing rules.
Authorities scolded residents of Toronto for congregating in parks and other spaces last weekend.
Congregating in the middle of the venue, they covered "Hallelujah", "Closed on Sunday" and "Follow God".
Dr. Deborah Birx, response co-ordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, said on that congregating on beaches was not safe unless people kept at least six feet apart.
He said the gates were closed because persons were refusing to comply with the M&CC’s regulations, regarding social distancing and congregating in the municipal markets.
However parents took to social media to vent their shock and disappointment after turning up to find no temperature checking in place and little social distancing, with large groups of people congregating in close proximity to each other.
In this new socially distanced/health conscious version, tickets sales are limited to 44 people with distancing seating in every other row, there will be no intermission and no congregating in the lobby before, during or after the show.
I see too many handshakes, too much close spacing, and an emerging outbreak of instinctive congregating, as mammals tend to do.
Common combinations with congregating
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- congregating in 17×
- from congregating 7×
- were congregating 6×
- people congregating 5×
- congregating at 5×
- congregating on 5×
- congregating outside 4×
- congregating around 4×
- and congregating 3×
- avoid congregating 3×