[
UK
/flˈɒk/
]
[ US /ˈfɫɑk/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɑk/ ]
NOUN
-
an orderly crowd
a troop of children - a church congregation guided by a pastor
-
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market - a group of sheep or goats
- a group of birds
VERB
-
come together as in a cluster or flock
The poets constellate in this town every summer -
move as a crowd or in a group
Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
How To Use flock In A Sentence
- A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
- If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
- Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
- They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
- Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
- Her father used to orchestrate proofs about evil as a way of persuading his flock to convert. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
- However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
- Don't be friends with bad boys. People think that birds of a feather flock together.
- Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
- They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.