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How to use gregarious in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective

Gregarious means who enjoys being in crowds and socializing. Example: “Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.”

Examples of gregarious by meaning

adjectiveOf animals that travel in herds or packs.

  • Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down

More sentences with gregarious

  • An ambivert can move into a social situation and be a hearty, outgoing, gregarious participant.1995, W[illard] Cleon Skousen, “The Problem of Building Balanced Personalities”, in So You Want to Raise a Boy?, Orem, Ut.: Ensign Pub.…. From the entry ambivert
  • Gregarious, suntanned and ponytailed — as if he had just come in from the beach.1988 December 25, G. Steven Rose, “A Brave And Charming Diplomat”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 16. From the entry ponytailed
  • He was gregarious, outwardly charming, and presented himself as an affable jokester.1981 April, Matt Braun, chapter 4, in Tombstone (Luke Starbuck; 3), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry smoothtalker
  • To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 208. From the entry cenobite
  • But now the subdebutante is dynamic, gregarious and at the peak of her plumage.1941 January 27, “Subdebs”, in LIFE, page 75. From the entry subdebutante
  • The Teuton becomes the Anglo-Saxon, and therewith less apt for the gregarious life.1901, Edward Alsworth Ross, Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, published 2009, page 16. From the entry Teuton
  • The second group consisted of gregarious, highly spirited teachers.1990, Kofi Lomotey, Going to School: The African-American Experience, page 62. From the entry nonpromotion
  • The natives are a primitive but gregarious lot.1984, Joseph Dougherty, Digby: A Play, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1986, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry reindeer games
  • She was gregarious, opinionated, and in charge, the kind of person you'd describe as a real pistol, and I was immediately drawn to her.2011, Diane Lierow, Bernie Lierow, Kay West, Dani's Story: A Journey from Neglect to Love, page 81. From the entry pistol
  • McAuliffe was no less gregarious toward his rivals, who were also making the rounds — Moran, a former state delegate, and State Senator R.2009 May 10, Adam Nagourney, “Governor Clintonism?”, in New York Times. From the entry outtalk
  • There is no particular reason why even the gregarious Americans should so throng the portals of a perfectly obscure steerage passenger like young Chuzzlewit.1922, G. K. Chesterton, What I saw in America. From the entry aleatory
  • The eggs hatch after 10-20 days into toadpoles, which are black and gregarious; they then metamorphose and leave the pond when only just over 1cm long.2018 July 5, Adrian Thomas, “Gardening for Reptiles and Amphibians”, in RSPB Gardening for Wildlife: New edition, 2, illustrated edition…. From the entry toadpole
  • I'd forgotten how naturally gregarious I am—living alone is pleasant in a way, but it's certainly much pleasanter at night by contrast with a dayful of people.2011, Lynne Reid Banks, The Backward Shadow, page 70. From the entry dayful
  • The frenzied, suggestible, gregarious, subconscious self, freed from all rational restraints, celebrated its delirious orgies, its corybantic bacchanalia, held its mad salto mortale over the grave of crucified humanity.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry salto mortale
  • Gregarious animals have a positive tropism toward the members of their own flock; the dog has a negative tropism toward his own kind and a positive tropism toward mankind.1911, Isaac A[mada] Cornelison, “Tropism”, in The Natural History of Religious Feeling: A Question of Miracles in the Soul, New York…. From the entry tropism

Meaning of gregarious

  1. adjective Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
  2. adjective Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
  3. adjective Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.

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Questions about gregarious in a sentence

How do you use gregarious in a sentence?
Gregarious is used as an adjective. For example: “Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.”
What is a short sentence with gregarious?
“The natives are a primitive but gregarious lot.”
What does gregarious mean?
Gregarious means who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.

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