flocking

Synonyms for flocking

verb congregate

"tuft of wool," mid-13c., probably from Old French floc, from Latin floccus "flock of wool, lock of hair."

On this occasion they had been flocking into Sulaco for a week past.

The courtiers were flocking to the Luxembourg, in hopes of some advantage to themselves.

We passed immense crowds of people, who were flocking to the same place.

The Bishop is mad about it, and Basil and all the picked men are flocking to him.

Men were flocking to that region from all parts of the earth.

It was the afternoon; and children were flocking into a Church that I passed.

Your patrons will be flocking to your studio, and you have got nothing to show.

The adventurous spirits from far and wide were flocking to this new Eldorado.

Numbers of people were flocking, about this time, to Liverpool for refuge.

The South was flocking to arms, stimulated by the desire of seizing Washington.