flocking

[ flok-ing ]

noun

1. a velvetlike pattern produced on wallpaper or cloth decorated with flock.
2. flock ²( def 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of flocking¹

First recorded in 1870–75; flock ² + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Recently touted as being the fifth most popular national park on TikTok, Göreme, in central Turkey, is so much more than a haven for flocking influencers.

From Outside Online

For instance, he has studied the flocking patterns of starlings and other animals.

From Science News For Students

Boids of a feather, flock togetherAncient Romans said the gods guided flocking birds.

From Popular-Science

Heard about all the 2016 Democratic hopefuls flocking to the Hawkeye State?

From The Daily Beast

So Many Jihadists Are Flocking to Libya, It's Becoming ‘Scumbag Woodstock’

From The Daily Beast

Soon, believers seeking cures began flocking to the chapel and praying to its guardian angel, St. Roch.

From The Daily Beast

Fashion designers, models, and bloggers are flocking to New York to check out the Fall/Winter 2014 runways.

From The Daily Beast

The CSI shows similarly sent young people flocking to forensic-science programs.

From The Daily Beast

The London workhouses had become congested "by the flocking into them of the lowest and most difficult to manage classes of poor."

From Project Gutenberg

The news had spread like wildfire to the studies, and the other boys came flocking in during the uproar, to join in it heartily.

From Project Gutenberg

As the children came flocking in with their bright faces and gay ribbons, it was a pretty scene.

From Project Gutenberg

It came afternoon of the next day, and the show was opened, and the people came flocking in.

From Project Gutenberg

Men and women are flocking to the meetings, old and young, to know what they must do to be saved.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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