Used in a Sentence

flocked

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for flocked.

Editorial note

I am not sure if the reality is lost, or the fan club has flocked in.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(of Christmas trees) Covered with artificial snow.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of flocked gathered in one view.

adjective

(of Christmas trees) Covered with artificial snow.

adjective

(of bristles) Having split, bushy ends.

adjective

(of swabs) Having dense fibers with a desirable nap to optimize collection and elution of specimens.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flocked.

adjective

(of Christmas trees) Covered with artificial snow.

adjective

(of bristles) Having split, bushy ends.

adjective

(of swabs) Having dense fibers with a desirable nap to optimize collection and elution of specimens.

Example sentences

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I am not sure if the reality is lost, or the fan club has flocked in.

2

But there is certainly a reason why all my Facebook-using peers have flocked to Facebook as well.

3

Or, when a generation who flocked to it, realizes it wasn't all that instrumental to their formation..

4

Instead, tech people flocked to products made by at least 2 of those 3 responsible for EME.

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Every narrow street in technology was once thought to be a superhighway that everyone flocked to.

6

After people claimed Reddit was censoring users by banning /r/fatpeoplehate, the more unsavory users flocked to Voat, a blatant Reddit clone.

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It was becoming obvious that the people who flocked to these things most, who outright related to these computers, were nerds.

8

Prior to the passage of those laws, though, doctors and medical students flocked to wherever there was a ready supply of cadavers.

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Once there was a suitable alternative (clang) with a more liberal license, companies flocked to it, and clang is now eating GCC's lunch.

10

They chose to ignore developers and thus everyone flocked to the JVM.

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The average user doesn't really mind, as it turns out, otherwise the populous would have flocked to Diaspora as soon as it was released.

12

In defense of your positions, in the early 90s, many of the most talented engineers that I knew flocked to Apple.

Quote examples

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"V8 was a readily-available fast runtime and people who already knew JS flocked to it" That's basically all there is to a language's success.

2

These were known as “study corpses,” “free-of-charge corpses,” and “failed corpses.” Medical students flocked from all over Europe and the United States to see and participate in dissections firsthand.

3

It has first class, anonymous functions and closures, and that's it.) To me, the node story seems to boil down to "V8 was a readily-available fast runtime and people who already knew JS flocked to it" — which is fair enough, but hardly an argument for how appropriate JS is, as a language, for this sort of programming model.

Proper noun examples

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Flocked together, left alone to make the best out of the situation.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use flocked in a sentence?

I am not sure if the reality is lost, or the fan club has flocked in.

What does flocked mean?

(of Christmas trees) Covered with artificial snow.

What part of speech is flocked?

flocked is commonly used as adjective.