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Example sentences for "clusters"

Lexicographically close words:
cluse; cluss; cluster; clustered; clustering; clutch; clutched; clutches; clutching; clutter
  1. Did your eye brighten, when young lambs at play Leap'd o'er your path with animated pride, Or gaz'd in merry clusters by your side?

  2. Rising above these stones, the many dingy tombs scattered among them, clusters of noble trees raise their spreading branches toward the sky above, overshadowing this time-honored burial place of the dead.

  3. Behind one of these clusters I station'd Billy with the Captain's long sword, and a pistol that I by signs forbade him to fire unless in extremity.

  4. On either side the road was now bank'd by tall hills, with clusters of bracken and furze bushes lying darkly on their slopes.

  5. His Majesty's crown is an elegantly embossed tiara, with numerous chains hanging in gorgeous clusters around the brow, and surmounted by the imperial plume of white egret feathers.

  6. A succession of richly cultivated plains dotted over with clusters of conical white houses, in parts surrounded by clumps of tall junipers, stretched away from the foot, the very picture of peace and plenty.

  7. Decked in silver gauntlets and armlets, with the graceful akodama hanging in glittering clusters over their manly brows, the master-spirits of the scene were easily to be distinguished.

  8. Numerous huts are scattered in clusters over a wooded eminence, which rises on the steep side of the river, and here the indolent brothers, "Beneath the shade of melancholy boughs.

  9. Large droves of wild shaggy horses, and clusters of fiery savages were grouped on the plain outside.

  10. She had on a gown of lawn and lace, white as the flowers that hung in clusters from the Worcester vase at her side.

  11. How heavenly was the long, sweet afternoon, and the social pleasure of the tea hour, and the soft starlight night under the drooping gold of the laburnums and the fragrant clusters of the damask roses!

  12. There were several rows and clusters of shabby frame-houses, and a supply of mud sufficient to insure the town against a famine in that article for a hundred years; for the overflow had but lately subsided.

  13. Above the window is a band of reticulated tracery like that below, and the front is finished with a straight line of parapet pierced and foliated like that below, joining the picturesque clusters of corner pinnacles.

  14. On each side are clusters of square pinnacles ending in square crocketed spirelets, and running up to a horizontal moulding which, as so often, gives the whole design a rectangular form.

  15. This lengthy warrior showed, too, a childish incredulity when I pointed out to him cocoa-nuts hanging on the palms; a field of growing pineapples below us, or great clusters of fruit on the banana trees.

  16. When in flower in February, neither trunk, leaves, nor branches can be seen for its dense clusters of bright blue blossoms, which are unfortunately very short-lived.

  17. Rocks overgrown with twigs of trailing vines Thick-hung with clusters of the green wild-grape.

  18. The clusters of cherries, the yellow June apples, and the welcome "garden truck" were temptations not to be wholly resisted.

  19. Soon little plantations appeared, covered over with diminutive vines trailed up stout, white sticks; at a little distance they looked like clusters of dried red-brown leaves tied up by the stem, and drooping at the top.

  20. In many of the gardens poinsettias were flowering, and hanging clusters of a vivid red flower which our hotel proprietress called "Songe de Cardinal.

  21. But they raised him up, and gave him bread and he did eat, and they made him drink water, and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins.

  22. But their light was dim when compared to that of the electric jellyfish, which they found placed in clusters upon the ceilings of all the rooms of the palaces, rendering them light as day.

  23. All the walls were covered with iridescent shells, polished till they resembled mother-of-pearl, and upon the glass ceiling were clusters of the brilliant electric jellyfish, rendering the room bright and cheerful with their radiance.

  24. Thick clusters of boarders hung upon her sides and shrouds.

  25. The innumerable rowan-trees wore fiery hues upon their feathery foliage: everywhere the scarlet berries suspended in blood-red clusters against the blue sky or the cool greenness.

  26. The clusters under the leaves are getting quite purple, but look better than they taste.

  27. I have taken off clusters that were as compact and almost as large as the Black Hamburgs.

  28. Illustration] The foundation of the whole is a stupendous group of Granite rocks, which rise in pyramidal clusters to a prodigious altitude, and overhang the sea.

  29. Maton observed clusters of Trochus crassus, besides some species of Actinia and Asterias, not common on other parts of the coast.

  30. The small one-storied houses pressed against it, gray, flattened out on the soot-covered ground, and crowded up in close clusters on the edge of the marsh.

  31. Clusters of light clouds, white and rosy, sailed swiftly across the pale blue sky, like huge birds frightened by the piercing shriek of the escaping steam.

  32. On this side were grapes that seemed yet greenish; on another, some clusters that seemed full ripe, so like the true that they could as easily have deceived starlings and other birds as those which Zeuxis drew.

  33. In some instances, on the roots of the velvet bean they grow in clusters as large as an ordinary potato.

  34. Instead, a series of small, isolated clusters of mountains, reaching from the coast to an extreme distance of some 70 m.

  35. The islands though numerous are not as in Scotland and Norway a dominant feature of the coast, being generally small and often mere clusters of reefs.

  36. True nebulæ are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

  37. A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers.

  38. I counted the innumerable clusters of my vine, and fore-reckoned the abundance of my vintage.

  39. In two or three places grapevines clambered upon trellises, and bore clusters already purple, and promising the richness of Malta or Madeira in their ripened juice.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clusters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.