Explore Gregarious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like social or clustered. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Gregarious meaning
- Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
- Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
- Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
Using Gregarious
- The main meaning on this page is: Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing. | Of animals that travel in herds or packs. | Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
- Useful related words include: social, ungregarious, clustered.
- In the example corpus, gregarious often appears in combinations such as: gregarious and, and gregarious, are gregarious.
Context around Gregarious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gregarious
- In this selection, "gregarious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, instar, life, especially, personality, animals and friend stand out and add context to how "gregarious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 a gregarious guy who and and more gregarious than will. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gregarious" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gregarious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Atiku is a gregarious personality on account of his wealth. (10 words)
Tarteer is Baba’s gregarious friend, who owns the modest Lyd Restaurant. (12 words)
Noisy and gregarious, starlings spend a lot of the year in flocks. (12 words)
I do think being steady at the head coaching position is important, but I’m certain there are many that would love to see and love to see coaches with more emotion and that are more gregarious on the sideline and do different things. (44 words)
Berg somehow found time to get a law degree at Columbia, and, though not especially gregarious, had an intriguing mixture of friends and acquaintances, including Ian Fleming, Albert Einstein and Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers. (36 words)
He was a top student, and in time he became an obstetrics & gynecology doctor, delivering so many babies, maybe 3,000, a gregarious guy who remembered birthdays and who could make a nervous expectant mother grin. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Behavioral experiments with the migratory locust Locusta migratoria showed that cannibalism rates increased with the number of gregarious animals that were kept together in a cage.
She is very astute and active politically and more gregarious than Will’s father.
Humphrey, who seems to be very jovial and gregarious, has played with Jackson for his entire seven-year career.
Tarteer is Baba’s gregarious friend, who owns the modest Lyd Restaurant.
Terens, a gregarious and energetic 100-year-old, will be honored in June by the French as part of the 80th anniversary celebration of their country’s liberation from the Nazis.
Their entertaining and gregarious nature quickly won over viewers who, in Lil's words, loved seeing "two working class Northerners doing ordinary things in extraordinary places".
His gregarious, less serious nature would certainly slot right into Taika Waititi's vision of Thor.
However, one reason why this may not be the end of business travel is that humans are a gregarious bunch.
The birds are rather shy and retiring when nesting, but in winter they are gregarious (often 50 or many more), noisy and voracious devourers of sunflower seeds at feeders.
The gregarious form arises from an increase in population density which causes the locusts to aggregate.
The Union Agriculture Ministry’s Locust Warning Organisation then observed “low-density I & II instar gregarious/transient hoppers” at Jaisalmer and Suratgarh in Rajasthan and Fazilka in Punjab adjoining the Indo-Pakistan border.
They're normally solitary insects, but in certain environmental conditions, they undergo an incredible transformation, changing their appearance, physiology and behavior as they shift from solitary to "gregarious" mode.
Your bigger than life, gregarious personality will leave a hole in our hearts forever,” she wrote in part.
Berg somehow found time to get a law degree at Columbia, and, though not especially gregarious, had an intriguing mixture of friends and acquaintances, including Ian Fleming, Albert Einstein and Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers.
He was a top student, and in time he became an obstetrics & gynecology doctor, delivering so many babies, maybe 3,000, a gregarious guy who remembered birthdays and who could make a nervous expectant mother grin.
I do think being steady at the head coaching position is important, but I’m certain there are many that would love to see and love to see coaches with more emotion and that are more gregarious on the sideline and do different things.
Noisy and gregarious, starlings spend a lot of the year in flocks.
Richard Plepler, the gregarious chief executive of HBO and one of the most influential executives in entertainment, abruptly stepped down on Thursday.
A testimonial read out from film producer and close friend Tim Barr described Price as a 'gifted, generous and sensitive man', as well as a 'loving husband and doting father', and a 'warm and gregarious person'.
Atiku is a gregarious personality on account of his wealth.
Common combinations with gregarious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: