Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

For example, the fertility rates of women over 30 and under 30 had been converging.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Starr's problem is that their stories had been converging for a week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since midnight they had been converging on the new R. A. F. airdrome at Mildenhall, 60 miles from London.

From Time Magazine Archive

In special trains and oxcarts Madrasis and outlying villagers had been converging on Karaikudi to watch the Prime Minister lay the cornerstone of India's first Electro-Chemical Research Institute.

From Time Magazine Archive

However in 1900 he was killed at Kussuri near the lower Shari, by the combined forces of three French expeditions which had been converging from the Congo, the Sahara and the Niger.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various