[ US /ˈkɑŋɡɹəˌɡeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. come together, usually for a purpose
    The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve
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How To Use congregate In A Sentence

  • A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work, and travellers from the station.
  • The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
  • We were very photogenic, apparently, as we seemed to attract many people with cameras as we congregated in one spot.
  • Family members have not addressed reporters who congregated outside Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee. George Ryan Asks To Visit Gravely Ill Wife, Lura Lynn
  • Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights congregate.
  • I began composing an introduction praising the spiritual enlightenment exhibited in choosing to congregate in taverns, like 1849 San Jose legislators stepping in from muddy streets to drink whisky on barrelheads, before plotting out the future of nascent California.
  • In the 1880s, as cattle herds spread onto northern ranges, cowboys and cattlemen congregated in Cheyenne.
  • Young people often congregate in the main square in the evenings.
  • The crowds congregated in the town square to hear the mayor speak.
  • Did everybody kind of congregate together in one area or did everybody just sort of go to where they thought was a safe spot hoping that they would be OK? CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008
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