How to Use agglomeration in a Sentence

agglomeration

noun

• This suburb has become just a vast agglomeration of houses, people, and cars.
• Her home, at the top of a winding road, is a sleek agglomeration of boxes in concrete, pale wood, and glass.
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2020
• The comet consists of a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, and is likely no more than 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2020
• The forces of agglomeration, which big cities enable, are strongest in the kind of knowledge work that has become central to the economy.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• In fact, the museum is an agglomeration of spaces (and, to a degree, of collections) that have evolved over time.
  — Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms bonded to each other, just one atom thick; graphite is just an agglomeration of these sheets layered on top of each other.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2018
• Most left, and the WFP has shrunk down to a much smaller agglomeration of good government and do-gooder progressive groups.
  — David Freedlander, Daily Intelligencer, 7 June 2018
• Therefore, the ratio of fat : air must be sufficient to prevent the agglomeration, and lower amounts of air will allow for this.
  — Ashton Yoon, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2017
• An account of how the rules have been shaped must begin with antitrust laws, first enacted 128 years ago in the U.S. to prevent the agglomeration of market power.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• There’s a desire to mix tall buildings and shorter ones as a way to let sunlight in and keep the agglomeration of new buildings from overwhelming all of us down below.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 July 2019
• The team suggests the culprit is an agglomeration of dark matter, the mysterious but unseen stuff thought to make up 85% of the universe’s matter.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2020
• As much as the characters represent an agglomeration of types, they are well written and the actors invest them with life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Each agglomeration of equipment and data is effective in its own domain, but for the most part has little relevance to other bits of the body and the conditions that plague them.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The setup is all the more serendipitous as the downstairs apartment was largely an agglomeration of subletters who found rooms on the Facebook group Gypsy Housing.
  — Kim Velsey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2018
• What has been named the Whitechapel fatberg is a rock-solid agglomeration of fat, disposable wipes, diapers, condoms and tampons.
  — Amie Tsang, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• The most populated part of Malta is a dense agglomeration of towns near Valletta, the capital.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• And a wholesale move out of China looks unfeasible, not least because few other places possess the expertise that agglomerations like Shenzhen have built up over the years.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• The 117-acre agglomeration of shops, restaurants, office buildings, a movie theater, and waterpark, houses a huge network of sensors and video cameras.
  — Fortune, 14 July 2019
• The procession grew spontaneously into an agglomeration, and then a kind of protest.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• Museums certainly depend on agglomerations of wealth to build collections and sustain their mission, and artists are no strangers to greed.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Scrosati spoke to Variety in Venice about his vision for how Fremantle is spawning a wide range of films from its organic agglomeration of companies.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022
• It was also praised on Gab, a social network popular with the alt-right—a loose agglomeration of groups with far-right ideologies—as a morality play about a downtrodden Aryan warrior.
  — Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• Imagining such groups as little virtual villages is an old tech cliché, an echo from the days when the agglomerations of people on the internet were smaller, more like-minded and manageable.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• Hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying essence of blood, is a shape-shifting agglomeration of four heme molecules and four proteins (globins).
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2016
• The loose agglomeration has coalesced on social media— Facebook , YouTube, Twitter —and online chat rooms.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
• Manhattan's roads are a hellish agglomeration of potholes, double- and even triple-parking, and pedestrian and vehicle traffic unlike anywhere else in the country.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2017
• That’s the case with Jane South, who’s known for her elaborate paper constructions that look like agglomerations of architectural and mechanical parts.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• The dots on Toxmap cluster around major cities, forming dense agglomerations in the country’s most populated corridors.
  — Michael Schulson/undark, Popular Science, 24 Dec. 2019
• Most arts-industry communities on the current web — for example, the agglomeration of writers known as Book Twitter — run purely on the interest of their participants, who post thoughts and receive notes if the mood strikes.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• As China experimented with markets and special economic zones in its coastal cities, agglomeration economies that resulted from the reduction of barriers to capital established themselves.
  — Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024