Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: clustered
IPA transcription: [kl'ʌstɚd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered
    Meaning: clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head"
  • Synonyms: clustered
    Meaning: growing close together but not in dense mats
Usage examples
  • He spied in hall the hero-band, kin and clansmen clustered asleep, hardy liegemen.
  • The ruined blocks of the wide thoroughfare formed a trench through the clustered structures that the conflagration, wild as it was, could not leap.
  • The cry of the children had drawn a dozen warriors to the door of the nearest lodge, where they stood clustered in a dark and savage group, gravely awaiting the nearer approach of those who had unexpectedly come among them.
  • Outside the rain had ceased, and through the swiftly passing clouds, the pale rays of an after-storm sun shone upon the beautiful white coast of Kent and the quaint, irregular houses that clustered round the Admiralty Pier.
  • It is indeed a very little settlement,--a few houses clustered together upon the sandy beach close to the blue water; behind the houses rises a cliff crowned with great fir-trees, standing tall and dark in thick ranks, making a dense forest; and beyond this forest, cold, snow-covered mountains lift their peaks against the sky,--a fitting home for the Frost Giants.