Example Sentences

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A small crowd of hopeful fans had gathered, and a newscaster was clustering them together to use as a backdrop.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2015

At one of these ends there was an enormous camera on wheels, and a whole army of Oompa-Loompas was clustering around it, oiling its joints and adjusting its knobs and polishing its great glass lens.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

“Say, don’t it beat hell?” demanded a burly prospector as they came up, pointing back at the wall of the store where the group was clustering like a swarm of bees.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell

Much of the fruity wealth of autumn still was clustering in our sight, heavily fetching the arched bough down to lessen the fall, when fall they must.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

In another, as if it were some gigantic old-world fair, the merry-featured, strangely robed throng was clustering round a knot of dancing girls, Egyptian Terpsichoreans.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville