Etymology
Origin of ingathering
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.
Their ranks also included many former Democrats who shared a fervor for the anti-slavery cause and helped take some of the Whiggish, elitist edge off this ingathering of idealists and practical politicians.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2016
I’m having a small party to celebrate my ingathering of selves.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
Last week the era of indiscriminate ingathering came to a reluctant end.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language."
From Time Magazine Archive
In some of the more remote towns and villages of old England the custom lingers at the ingathering of the harvest.
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
