It all sounds cliquey, not communal, a huddle of chums, not a welcoming, ecumenical church.
Overall aggression levels are low, and sociopositive behaviours (grooming, huddling, communal sleeping, etc).
(At night, when the temperatures drop, the veranda takes on a communal atmosphere, with everyone huddled around a central fire pit).
Communal roosting in tight huddles can help conserve heat and several nuthatch species employ it up to 170 pygmy nuthatches have been seen in a single roost.
The Starbucks coffee shop on Astor Place is an airy, communal retreat where the regulars huddle with their laptops, reconnect with friends and exchange water-cooler gossip over foam lattes.
There's something reassuring about a bad movie that doesn't ask you to think or feel or even pay attention; we can all be happy D-minus students huddled together in communal self-disgust in a D-minus world.
I'm told the parakeets huddle together in their communal twig-nests and make loud conversation until spring comes.
While workers have fewer square feet of personal space, they now have more communal areas, including kitchenettes and private huddle rooms, where they can have meetings or work quietly.
Twenty- and 30-somethings in scarves, chunky sweaters and jeans typed at laptops and huddled around French-press coffeepots at communal tables.
We huddled around the paraffin heater in the communal tent, trying not to dribble while attempting the Iranian custom of drinking tea through a sugar lump.
In the very earliest days of communal drinking, pubs used to be little more than crude huts where people huddled together for a drink and a chat.
