ingathering

Example Sentences

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Their ranks also included many former Democrats who shared a fervor for the anti-slavery cause and helped take some of the Whiggish, elitist edge off this ingathering of idealists and practical politicians.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2016

I’m having a small party to celebrate my ingathering of selves.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2013

We are experiencing on a massively universal scale a convulsive ingathering of people in their numberless grouping of kinds�tribal, racial, linguistic, religious, national.

From Time Magazine Archive

It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is always something pathetic in the first wedding in a family,—the first severing of the family circle,—the first break, the first ingathering of new interest.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette