How to Use cluster in a Sentence

cluster

1 of 2 noun
  • A small cluster of people had gathered at the scene of the accident.
  • See the Pleiades star cluster above and left of the moon.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
  • On the horizon a cluster of roseate clouds match the hue of my drink.
    Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
  • During the taping, the writers sat in a tense cluster off to the side of the bleachers.
    Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • All of them are whole cluster night picks, hand-picked, so that’s the constant.
    Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s what to keep in mind if there’s a cluster of cases near you.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Pleiades star cluster will appear to the lower right of the full moon, but it may be masked by the moon's brightness.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In town, there’s a cluster of small shops and restaurants, and mom-and-pop lodgings.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Slightly off-center and to the left is a cluster of mouse buttons, plus a scroll wheel that moves the page up and down.
    PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
  • There’s going to be some early fawns, a big cluster of fawns, and then some late fawns.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
  • On a grassy median strip on the other side of the street, a cluster of about four tents remained.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • Essentially, this refers to the quality and size of the down clusters used to fill the outer shell.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Use hot glue to add them in rows or clusters to make your design truly pop.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
  • What are cluster munitions, which Biden has sent to Ukraine?
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The cluster of blazes included a fire that grew into one of the largest in state history.
    Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Behind him, a cluster of men in cowboy hats and plaid shirts guzzled their own beers.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • More than 150 of these clusters orbit our Milky Way galaxy, most many tens of thousands of light-years away.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
  • This bright, open cluster of stars is known by several names.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Then, as the heavy electron clusters dispersed, the lighter electrons would gather to fill in the thinner patches.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The genre has a healthy cluster of new stars, too, tugging the sound in multiple directions.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Pieris plants form flower buds in summer and the pearl-like buds hang in clusters all winter long until opening in spring.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The piece transforms the wall with a cluster of dents and gashes, leaving a scree of detritus beneath it; the head itself lies among the rubble.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
  • To clear the backlog, the new federal rule will require grid managers to assess projects in clusters instead of one at a time.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 July 2023
  • There were craggy faux rocks on the ground covered in a substance meant to look like moss, clusters of paper flowers emerging from the cracks.
    Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Our car climbs deeper into the ravine, passing clusters of cave dwellings flanked by terraced fields of corn and potatoes.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Among one cluster, most patients report a loss of smell or taste but few other symptoms.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • Europe’s style set has arrived on sleepy, low-key Menorca, drawn by a cluster of chic farm stays, a high-profile art gallery — and some of the best beaches in the Balearics.
    Rebecca Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • And don't forget the beach: Passing under a cluster of vines to get to the ivory sand feels like stepping into another world.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This spring-flowering shrub has large, round clusters of flowers that look similar to hydrangea blooms when in bloom.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Harbor Country, an idyllic cluster of eight small towns, features water as blue as a tropical postcard, sloping dunes, and great food at every turn.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2024
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cluster

2 of 2 verb
  • The children clustered around the storyteller.
  • At the foot of the hill, people cluster around an open casket.
    Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • Set an alarm to wake up in five hours – 50% of our dreams are clustered in the final few hours of the night.
    USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • The process clusters homes into eight to 12 routes, with eight to 10 houses on each route.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • When class ended, the students ran up to cluster around him.
    Hazlitt, 10 May 2023
  • Members of the press clustered at the fence, pads in hand, as the grandstand churned with an overflow crowd yet again.
    Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The stars are spread out into a pinwheel shape clustered around a black hole at its core.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2024
  • There are five to 10 guys in waders clustered around the bridge hole on opening day, all casting to the middle.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Atop her bald head sat a mesh cap with the small beige shells clustered together.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The latter’s round, yellow leaves looked like hundreds of tiny suns clustered in the blue sky.
    Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • And most of those are clustered in and around Chicago and Washington, D.C.
    Jerome Weeks, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • Nonwhites tend to cluster in certain sections of the beach.
    Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • While applying the neem oil, be sure to coat the undersides of the leaves (where many pests like to cluster and lay their eggs).
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2023
  • Guests are arriving in greater numbers, clustering by the bar and milling about the tent.
    Jean Garnett, The New Yorker, 10 July 2023
  • At a small cafe in Bahri, a bustling neighborhood north of the Nile, young men and women clustered over small cups of coffee.
    Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Above the sands, bright white villas and buildings cluster around blue swimming pools.
    Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
  • After World War I, the new norm was to cluster patients’ rooms around a nurses’ station.
    Sara Harrison, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The stars are spread out into a pinwheel shape with the majority of them clustered around a black hole that resides in the core.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
  • His map now shows more than 115 potential mines, clustered in his home state.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 11 July 2023
  • After the show, fans cluster around the Atmosphere merch table.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Another option is to cluster the pots together and place a dish of water in the center of the pots.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • On a block of L.A.'s skid row where the tents cluster corner to corner, there’s a store that most people know as the place with a little of everything.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • The box at the left has very regular spacing between all its points, and in the middle image, the dots seem to be clustering in groups.
    Christopher Lutsko, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The developer would cluster the homes on about 6 acres and preserve 18 acres.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Dozens of migrants clustered nearby, pleading for a charge.
    Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Everyone else would cluster in the building’s eastern half and get hardly a glimpse of the western train hall’s grandeur.
    Curbed, 28 June 2023
  • The trophies meant nothing after that, once they’d been brought home and clustered among all the others of similar height.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Pool players tend to cluster heavily on one or two teams to win the tournament.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Siblings clustered at the kitchen table, headphones on.
    USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • Tents were clustered together and encircled by alleys, forming little neighborhoods.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

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