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Example sentences for "gravitated"

Lexicographically close words:
graving; gravings; gravior; gravis; gravitate; gravitates; gravitating; gravitation; gravitational; gravitative
  1. While the Semitic mind gravitated toward the ethical and the personal, the Aryan gravitated toward the philosophic and the impersonal.

  2. After the flight of Cardinal Mathieu, and the refusal of Cardinal Bonnechose to coalesce, the friends of the latter gravitated towards the Roman centre, and the friends of the former held their meetings at the house of the Archbishop of Paris.

  3. She gravitated to the younger girls, and Belinda was really fascinated with her.

  4. She had run about and played, listened to stories and songs, gravitated between the two houses, ridden with grandad, who was always a little jealous that most of her relatives should be on the French side.

  5. Later they fell victim to the sea-wise Saracens, but again gravitated back to their closer and more natural European connections.

  6. As a general thing Matthew gravitated between the kitchen and the little bedroom off the hall where he slept; once in a while he ventured uncomfortably into the parlor or sitting room when the minister came to tea.

  7. By this time all the Queen's scholars had gravitated into their own places in the ranks and the various classes had assumed distinct and settled shadings of individuality.

  8. In the previous paragraph, as we have seen, he has gravitated toward the deeper regions of the blessed subject; he has indicated our connexion with the Lord's Life as well as with His Merit.

  9. His thoughts have long gravitated to the City of the World.

  10. Therefore the inference is that, toward the middle of the third century, Italy had lost the treasure she had won in war, which had gradually gravitated to the centre of exchanges.

  11. We have known multitudes of parsons, in our time, who have been "called" to places where their salaries were increased; we know of but few who have gravitated to a church where the salary was less than the one left.

  12. In 1854 he gravitated to Preston again, and in the course of a year was made incumbent of St. James's.

  13. Three years from the term of their leaving, after each had gone his own way for a season, they gravitated together again, and finally became established in the Cromwell Road flat, once more on the old affectionate terms.

  14. It seemed that all the visitors who had been in the gambling-hall had gravitated to this other dance-hall.

  15. In labor or fighting this Irishman always gravitated to the fore.

  16. We may suppose it to be older than the legend of Troy, and to have gravitated into the cycle of that legend.

  17. These must have existed for an unknown length of time before they gravitated into the cycle of the tale of Troy.

  18. We gravitated naturally to the diggings, which were very much like those at Hangman's Gulch, except that they were rather more extensive, and branched out more into the tributary ravines.

  19. Johnny, with his usual sympathy for children, naturally gravitated in their direction.

  20. From his boyhood he was always hunting trouble; he dearly loved a fight, and gravitated into the British navy as inevitably as a duck to water.

  21. Once in a while he moved away for a time, but he invariably gravitated back to it and to his old friends there.

  22. The centre of Israel gravitated southward, and Benjamin became the connecting link between Ephraim and Judah.

  23. In the morning he gravitated to his friend again, and in a burst of confidence, related the outcome of his having adopted the course that had been advised.

  24. In a room full of people engrossed in one another, he gravitated to her, as usual, but surprised her by asking her to grant him a few words in private.

  25. Although a Democrat, he had opposed many of their measures in the interest of slavery, and now gravitated toward the Republican party.

  26. Seeking new fields to conquer, he naturally gravitated to the money centre, New York.

  27. But when we reached the bottoms, or if a "divide" appeared, they speedily gravitated again into their natural creep.

  28. At the outset, the centre to which the affairs of the country gravitated was in the extreme north of the valley.

  29. Plato had not striven, and Aristotle had failed, to create an adequate basis for thought in real science; and the world gravitated back to religion.

  30. The rest of the happy and irresponsible punchers gravitated to the far end of the bar and proposed that they "have a little fun with the tall guy.

  31. The New York team quickly gravitated to the bottom.

  32. St. Louis and New York quickly gravitated to the lower strata and remained there, the Yankees finally losing out in their battle with the Browns to keep out of last place.

  33. Young Girard gravitated from the position of cabin-boy to clerk.

  34. The family gravitated to the then little village of Peekskill, and here the lad lived until he was seventeen years old.

  35. Nathan had gravitated by divine right to the head of the concern.


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