How to Use confluence in a Sentence

confluence

noun

• Signs on the low wall mark the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 July 2024
• What about the confluence of those things appeals to you?
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 July 2022
• Then, in 1963, came a confluence of events that would change his life.
  — Daniel Lewis, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• That our city is at the confluence of two rivers, namely the Willamette and the Columbia?
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2023
• Martin Landing is near the confluence of the Boise, Owyhee and Snake rivers.
  — Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 18 July 2024
• The confluence of factors could lead to some sort of a breakthrough.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• Both CEOs said the strength of this new venture stems from the confluence of their large data sets.
  — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• So, for many reasons, there was a confluence of events that that led to that record slipping through the cracks.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 July 2024
• The boom comes due to a confluence of forces, experts noted.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• But in Puerto Carreño, the small city at the confluence of the Meta and Orinoco rivers, there’s no lab to run blood tests for mercury.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Its headwaters are at the confluence of Knight Creek and Trout Creek.
  — Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
• And in a rare confluence, the country may also be the best place to look for solutions.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• According to the health experts, a confluence of factors have led to the surge.
  — Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
• The rise of Chalino Sánchez could be attributed to a confluence of events.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 7 July 2022
• The researchers noted that this could have been due to a confluence of factors.
  — Julia Zorthian, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
• He and his wife, Susette, also a river guide, were married at the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• There’s no grand confluence that made early 2022 the season of Keaton.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The storage project and new power plant have been in the planning stages for more than a decade, the result of a confluence of factors.
  — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Both sides on the ballot question say a confluence of factors led to the result.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• However, the stock now is back to a confluence of support.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
• All the riverine words (confluence, mouth) take on new meanings now.
  — Melissa Cundieff, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2022
• Perhaps the most useful confluence of Dad and Coach, though, is on the recruiting trail.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
• The confluence of cultures is carried out in the hotel’s dining venues as well.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
• The weary and bedraggled men reached the confluence of these two majestic rivers on Sunday, April 26.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• What’s brand new, for the past few years, has been this confluence of this more data than anyone could have imagined even a few years ago.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• The canyon's rim creates a juncture where Ute Canyon and Monument Canyon form a confluence of two deep ravines.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2022
• People perch on every rock in the river, the sheer volume of migrants laid bare in one confluence.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• This confluence of the muddy and clear echoes the gradual softening of his heart.
  — Joshua Minsoo Kim, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
• It is surrounded by water thanks to its location by the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, and the city has more than its fair share of greenery.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
• Yet the very prominence of this theme makes the confluence of hip-hop’s mid-century mark and Dave Jolicoeur’s death all the more unsettling.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024