Clustered
['klʌstəd] or ['klʌstɚd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Cluster
Typist: Wanda
Examples
- At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To improve such earthenware and to best decorate it, are the objects around which modern inventions have mostly clustered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We clustered together a group of wretched sufferers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And what are varieties but groups of forms, unequally related to each other, and clustered round certain forms--that is, round their parent-species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As Fries has well remarked, little groups of species are generally clustered like satellites around other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She was pale and fair, and her golden hair clustered on her temples, contrasting its rich hue with the living marble beneath. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When unopposed they spread their ravages wide; in cases of danger they clustered, and by dint of numbers overthrew their weak and despairing foes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typist: Wanda