Example Sentences

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Lately, he said, he had been gravitating toward “pan-proto-psychism”—the idea that consciousness might be “a fundamental property of the universe” upon which the brain somehow draws.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017

It was to China's great northwest, where she apparently worked hard to restore Chinese influence in areas which for some time had been gravitating toward Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had not escaped the notice of Fred, and since his entrance he had been gravitating toward it.

From The Scarlet Car by Davis, Richard Harding

Possibly, unknown to the girls, she had been gravitating towards it ever since her principal's hasty war wedding.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John

To this the thought of mankind had been gravitating, and in Jewish and in Greek thought, conduct was more and more the centre of everything.

From The Jesus of History by Glover, T. R.