Sentence examples for gathering sat from inspiring English sources

"In the gigantic gathering sat the young man's father," the Evening Register reported, "and the envying eyes of hundreds of other fathers were turned on him, as the president made the announcement.

Beyond the grand slams, few tournaments draw big crowds, none attracts the sort of gathering that sat around Court Philippe Chatrier on Friday in buzzing anticipation of Nadal v Federer.

In a barn, gathering dust, sits a meticulously restored cream-colored 1956 Ford Thunderbird.

For decades, the idea sat gathering dust.

An unused dot-matrix printer sat gathering dust.

A Tour de France that had sat gathering dust in a European museum for 32 years was sold last May at a Brooks auction in Monaco for $758,523.

"Along with that of Robert Corfield, dozens of cases are sat gathering dust on a desk within the Army's Directorate of Manning".

His nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, which sat gathering dust in the Senate for that long, expired at noon Tuesday — just as the 115th Congress was sworn in on the first day of its legislative session.

Even if it's new, you have no idea how long it sat gathering dust (or worse) at a store.

"I would have hoped that the F.B.I. was more concerned with conducting an investigation and gathering evidence, not gathering mementos to sit on their bookshelves as a relic from the worst national tragedy in the country's history," said Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband died in the trade center and who has helped lead a group of survivors pushing for more answers about the attacks.

In November 2006, at a gathering in Manhattan, she sat in one of the 12 occupied chairs on the stage.