6 sentences with 'flocked'
Example sentences and phrases with the word flocked and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, whereas early Christianity had been a religion of the common people, Roman elites flocked to convert after Constantine did so in order to stay in the emperor's good graces. »
• « In addition to the promise of salvation, and equally important for many of the knights who flocked to the Crusader banner, was the promise of booty (and, again, Urban II's speech explicitly promised the Crusaders wealth and land). »
• « When crops failed, the poor often flocked to the cities in search of some kind of respite, be it work or church-based charity. »
• « Even though the Ottoman Empire was a nominal ally of the members of the Holy Alliance and an official part of the Congress System, and even though the Greek uprising was precisely the sort of thing the Holy Alliance had been organised to prevent, Europeans soon flocked to support the rebellion. »
• « The post-war economic boom in Europe created a huge market for labour, especially in the unskilled labour fields. Thus Africans, Caribbeans, Asians and Middle Easterners from the former colonies flocked to work in jobs that Europeans did not want, because those jobs still paid more than skilled labour from the former colonies. »
• « It is a very strange relationship between humans and pandas. We adore them to such an extent that when the Chinese government loaned a pair to the San Diego Zoo for six months, the public flocked to see them and the park sold more than half a million T-shirts bearing the image of these curious animals. »