How to Use conglomeration in a Sentence

conglomeration

noun
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  • Amid this conglomeration of buckles and cinches, straps go over the shoulders, around the waist, and through the legs.
    — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Can a conglomeration of bricks, glass, wood, steel and mortar reveal the soul of a city?
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • This seems to be the next tumble of the dice in what would eventually be a four-league, 64-team conglomeration.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 July 2021
  • The stainless steel work weighs 4 tons and, in a conglomeration of spiraling appendages, swirls up to a height of 30 feet.
    — charlotteobserver, 31 May 2017
  • The march was a great, sprawling conglomeration of people and causes and ideas.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The behemoth conglomeration faces its biggest test Tuesday, when Bloomberg’s name will be on the ballot for the first time in 14 states.
    — Rebecca R. Ruiz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The fact is that World War II was a conglomeration of many different conflicts.
    — Antony Beevor, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Aerial scans and a few boats have since confirmed that the conglomeration, 58 square miles in area, is pumice coughed up by an undersea volcano.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • For Johnny, this business is a conglomeration of his life’s work.
    — AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And essentially, that's what a floater is: a glob or conglomeration of this jelly floating around in the fluid.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Health.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • So there’s all of these layers piled up on top of each other — a beautiful conglomeration.
    — Richard Chang, Daily Pilot, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Bowden said that her team consisted of the odd conglomeration of people that were drawn to overnight work looking at weird and disturbing stuff.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Wednesday’s conglomeration couldn’t be called a give-up lineup, because the Padres conceded the season long ago.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In the city of Ariha, a conglomeration of concrete apartment buildings astride the M4, some people have dared to return but feel no more reassured.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • This genome conglomeration fixed many of the problems with the original human genome sequence by broadening the scope of the genomic data set present.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • Peace among women and men and massive conglomeration of tech and media assets are among the potential outcomes.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 12 June 2018
  • Bonaventure in the thirteenth century, known as the Seraphic Doctor, thought that angels are a mixture of air and a conglomeration of elements.
    — Eliot Weinberger, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The crest, which appears on the back of team jackets and the like, is a busy conglomeration of quadrants, historical data, verbiage, stars and concentric circles.
    — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The master bedroom features a unique conglomeration of art.
    — Arielle Paul, latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • When galaxies collide, as the two conglomerations of stars that make up Arp 299 are doing, Dr. Mattila explained in an email, large clouds of gas fall into the central regions.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • When the message is muddied by having a conglomeration of thoughts, you can easily get confounded.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Grant is a fifth-generation member of the family that has owned the distillery since 1865, and the brand itself has remained independent in a world of rampant whisky conglomeration.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The situation was made worse Monday night when the mercury plunged into the teens, solidifying the slushy conglomeration.
    — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Many of the nation’s biggest banks including Citi are conglomerations of financial institutions that have merged or bought each other over many years.
    — Ken Sweet, Fortune, 28 July 2023
  • People Movers Cities are well served by extensive transportation networks that move people and goods into, out of and around urban conglomerations on a daily—or hourly—basis.
    — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • A conglomeration of stars doesn’t make a winning franchise, however.
    — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
  • The association plans, which are aimed at loose conglomerations of workers or small businesses, would be subject to many of the same rules as large-group plans offered by corporate employers.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
  • Known as a helium hydride ion (HeH+), this conglomeration of Big Bang leftovers is just a helium atom and a hydrogen nucleus, aka a proton.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Khan pushed back, arguing that more regulation is necessary as the companies have grown and that tech conglomeration could hurt the economy and consumers.
    — David Hamilton, Fortune, 14 July 2023
  • Will an unfettered market just lead to more conglomeration?
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017

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