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Example sentences for "cluster"

Lexicographically close words:
clung; clur; clus; cluse; cluss; clustered; clustering; clusters; clutch; clutched
  1. The question of luncheon soon came to the front, for should we be favored with fine weather, much of the poetry and romance of the journey was sure to cluster round the midday halt.

  2. A thousand memories cluster round this ruin; but what should we have known of it had not the great magician touched with his wand this dead mass of stone and lime and conferred immortality upon the actors and their revels?

  3. In this view, somewhat self-complacent it is to be admitted, America is conceived to come into the case as initiator and guide, about whom the pacific nations are to cluster as some sort of queen-bee.

  4. Then a volume of white-blue smoke spouts forth from a point above, a heavy boom, a hurtling rush through the air, and the shrapnel bursts with a screech and a detonation right over the nearest cluster of huts.

  5. A good example is the cluster in the Hyades, where Boss has studied thirty-nine stars with special care.

  6. I may mention that there was not another of our fellow-passengers who took the trouble to come on deck and give a glance at this strange cluster of islands.

  7. There was the perpendicular wall on his right, and a cluster of black crags on his left, and toward these the boat was rushing at what seemed to him a terrific rate.

  8. Morag felt immensely gratified when Kirsty plucked a grape from the purple cluster and put it into her parched mouth.

  9. She suddenly remembered the purple cluster of grapes which Mr. Clifford gave to her the day before.

  10. As he plunged into the side aisles, he perceived a reddish light behind a cluster of pillars.

  11. He thought he heard a cluster of skeletons at Montfauçon clashing together in the gloom.

  12. Her last words are drowned in the jeers of his companions, and his senses are deadened by the odors of the purple cluster just ahead, and to reach it he takes the fatal step.

  13. Instead of the short cut of the night before, the Doctor chose the more circuitous route through the village; if a cluster of dilapidated houses might be dignified by that name.

  14. The brightest reminiscences I shall carry across the ocean are those that cluster about the hours I have spent with you.

  15. This cluster might challenge comparison with those from which Red Hermitage is made, and the seeds of which are said to have been brought from Schiraz.

  16. Edna was in the act of giving him hers, when the heart-shaped diamond cluster on his finger flashed, and one swift glance at his face and figure made her snatch away her hand ere it touched his, and draw back with a half-smothered exclamation.

  17. If the astronomical conjectures be correct, concerning the possibility of a galaxy of blue stars, a huge cluster hangs in this neighborhood and furnishes an explanation of the color of the women.

  18. She was selecting a cluster to hold up for inspection, and had not remarked the cloud on Mrs. Murray's brow.

  19. Mr. Murray placed a luscious cluster in the emaciated hands, and put the basket down on the floor near the cot.

  20. The dwelling-house itself was shaded by a cluster of trees which had been spared from the native forest, and within view were several fields of cultivated ground neatly inclosed with fences.

  21. Towards the centre of this opening grew a cluster of low cherry and peach trees, around whose roots a plentiful stock of wild scions had shot up in the absence of culture.

  22. Proudly, as our Southern forests Meet the winter's shafts so keen: Time-defying memories cluster Round our hearts in living green.

  23. No slanderous tongue can vex his spirit now, No bitter taunts can stain his blood-bought fame Immortal honor rests upon his brow, And noble memories cluster round his name.

  24. Then he looked out and down; already the green cluster of cottonwoods lay far below.

  25. August Naab whooped when he reached the valley, and Indian braves appeared, to cluster round him, shake his hand and Hare's, and lead them toward the centre of the encampment.

  26. Another fine day was well on its way and as Dave screwed his head around so that he could look high up into the blue sky he saw cluster after cluster of planes in line and in V formation.

  27. Killing his speed as much as possible Dave worked the craft inch by inch toward the cluster of heads that were now bobbing out from under the edge of the cloud of smoke.

  28. He shot a quick look down the hill and saw a cluster of lights suddenly spring into being.

  29. So had some Stukas a couple of hours before and they had marked it well with a cluster of bomb craters.

  30. Dave stayed where he was for an instant, not moving an inch, and his eyes fixed upon the cluster of dots streaking down from the blue sky high overhead.

  31. In the yard west of the house stood an old dilapidated cabin with the chimney torn down, near which stood the smoke-house and a cluster of young cherry trees.

  32. In the morning I stepped out into the yard, when I heard the report of a gun from a cluster of hazel brush about eighty yards off.

  33. Just beneath the window the clasping tendrils of a clematis were wound about the pedestal of a marble Flora, and a cluster of the delicate purple blossoms peeped through the fingers of the goddess.

  34. One evening, on returning from a walk with Helen Asbury, Beulah ran into her friend's room with a cluster of flowers.

  35. Here, let me twine this cluster of wistaria in your hair; I stole it as I ran up the steps.

  36. Look how you have crushed that cluster of heliotrope, rushing over the flower-beds as if there were no walks.

  37. Hartwell entered, with a parcel in one hand and a magnificent cluster of greenhouse flowers in the other.

  38. Thus saying, he turned his eyes towards the little point of land that jets out towards Asia from the Turkish city, known as Seraglio Point, a fairy-like cluster of gardens and palaces marking the spot.

  39. Before the song was ended he lay down at her feet in a state apparently of dormancy, though his eyes, peering from beneath one of his arms, were fixed upon a cluster of stars that shone the heavens above him.

  40. A mixed inflorescence with the main axis indeterminate and the secondary or ultimate cluster cymose.

  41. A general flower-stalk supporting either a cluster of flowers, or a solitary flower.

  42. The undeveloped state of a branch or flower-cluster with or without scales.

  43. The launch rudely hustled through a cluster of gaily painted native boats, the dingiest of them bearing some sonorous name, and I landed in Brazil.

  44. The night was hot, there was no wind, and as we sat yarning on the bunker hatch another cluster of stars moved in swiftly together, came to a stand near us, and a peremptory gun was fired.

  45. Bridgetown was between those hills and the sea, a cluster of white cubes, with inconsequential touches of scarlet, orange, and emerald.

  46. He had already had some experience in a part of the region to be searched, had been a governor of Ile-de-France, and during a South Sea voyage had named the cluster of islands east of Papua now called the D'Entrecasteaux Group.

  47. Overhead he saw a cluster of heavy, black clouds sweeping across the sky, like eager, reaching hands against a somber background.

  48. He saw a moment's hesitation in that cluster of fishing smacks and then one by one he watched them pull away from the nets and row toward the beach.

  49. He bent to his oars then till he came to the cluster of smacks on the other side of the nets.

  50. It is distinguished only by five stars of fourth and fifth magnitudes, situated below the line of Castor and Pollux, and by a pale cluster called Præsepe, the Beehive.

  51. I forgot to mention a cluster of heliotrope in blossom on the Down, growing in such wild luxuriance that I could not believe it to be my little darling flower.

  52. A cluster of cherubs hovers over the head of Mary.

  53. A cluster up-river belongs to the seigniory, but this is your fortress.

  54. They had passed Cap Rouge, a cluster of cabins, the seignior’s substantial stone hut forming one side of the fort-like palisades.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cluster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accumulate; adhere; agglomeration; aggregate; amass; army; array; assemble; band; batch; battery; bevy; block; body; breccia; bulk; bunch; bundle; cake; clabber; clasp; cleave; clinch; cling; clot; clump; cluster; clutch; coagulate; cohere; collect; collection; combine; compile; concentrate; concrete; congeal; conglomerate; conglomeration; congregate; converge; copse; copulate; corral; couple; covetous; crew; crop; crowd; crush; curdle; date; deluge; drift; embrace; flock; flood; forgather; fuse; galaxy; gather; grasp; group; grouping; grove; hassock; heap; herd; hive; hold; horde; host; huddle; hug; jam; jell; jelly; join; knot; league; link; lot; lump; mass; match; meet; merge; mess; mill; mob; mobilize; multitude; muster; node; pair; panoply; parcel; partner; party; persist; platoon; pocket; press; rabble; raise; rally; rendezvous; rout; ruck; seethe; shock; slew; solid; solidify; spate; stay; stick; stream; surge; swarm; thicken; thicket; throng; tuft; unite; wisp