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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024