7 sentences with 'gathering'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gathering and other words derived from it.
• « For example, the early days of man as a forager, when he was concerned with gathering the fruits and vegetables he found along the way. Inevitably he must have tasted all tastes and had to discern between sweet and bitter, mild and spicy. »
• « In Prussia and the other Germanic kingdoms, a series of revolutions saw a gathering of hundreds of aspiring politicians in the city of Frankfurt. »
• « 30,000 young people marched in Berlin before war was declared, singing patriotic songs and gathering at the feet of statues of German and Prussian heroes. Everywhere, thousands of young men joined the army of their own free will. »
• « With war clouds gathering over Europe in 1914, the Young Turks rallied behind Germany, the only European power that had never threatened Ottoman territories and which promised significant territorial gains in the event of a German-Turkish victory. »
• « According to some researchers, the invention of clay working would not have been isolated, but part of a more general 'revolution' in human change: along with improved techniques for working stone, there would have been a shift from nomadic to sedentary life, from an economy based on hunting and gathering, to cultivating the land and raising livestock. »
• « Paleolithic women, children and elders were engaged in less arduous tasks, such as gathering fruit and eggs, an activity they shared with the care and preservation of food and something essential: fire. »