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US
/ˈɡɹævɪˌteɪt/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈævɪtˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈævɪtˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
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move toward
The conversation gravitated towards politics -
be attracted to
Boys gravitate towards girls at that age -
move due to the pull of gravitation
The stars gravitate towards each other
How To Use gravitate In A Sentence
- Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering.
- Missions for unmanned vehicles will gravitate toward those compatible with their primary strengths - persistence, expendability and stealth.
- If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
- The other players gravitated towards us because Jimmy was such a great chanter and a great comic.
- Even policy making responsibilities tended to gravitate to the personnel office over time. Human Resource Management in Government
- Mantica cantheri coflas gravitate premebatV Succuflatoris tetri, tardique caballi. A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
- I often gravitate back to the Narnia books or Lewis's brilliant retelling of the Cupid & Psyche myth, Till We Have Faces, but this time, I've headed for the essays / apologias instead.
- If it turns out that antimatter gravitates in any way different from matter, a whole lot of theory is going to have to be revised.
- Similarly, instead of being thrown off into space by their movement round the sun, the planets would gravitate towards the centre of their whirlpool.
- I yawned and stretched my arms, avoiding his gray eyes and feeling a little self-conscious at having gravitated toward him in sleep. Darkness Becomes Her