Sentence examples for gathering slowly from inspiring English sources

8.25pm BST Bucolic birdsong Rob Booth mails from the stadium: Really quite amazing to see the flock of sheep pour into an enclosure in the middle of the 21st century Olympic Stadium and their presence has switched on a crowd which has been gathering slowly over the last few hours and amusing itself with mexican waves.

Each movement drew another set of eyes as people rested their bikes, licked their cones and murmured "Ah-h-h!" as the fish bent the fisherman's slender rod into an arc, which, like the gathering crowd, slowly tightened.

Small, diffuse clouds begin to coalesce around them, the clouds gathering first slowly and then swiftly until, suddenly, they fuse into surprising wholes: human heads, blown to mist by rifle fire, reconstituting on fallen shoulders proudly restored to vigour and running backwards with their fellows.

Three years later, and all that is left of the federal effort is a series of dated web pages, findable by search engines, but slowly gathering the equivalent of digital dust on some slow server somewhere.

Parcells is gathering information, moving slowly.

But while the response to the storm is slowly gathering pace, there are many problems.

The film is slowly gathering traction, with screenings in Los Angeles and Dallas and positive reviews.

This trend started with the industrial revolution and has been slowly gathering pace.

So: how might things change in the future, I say, gathering my bag slowly.

The Occasion plays brooding, slowly gathering songs that favor minor keys and confessions of trouble.

Bataille's animal revolt is mirrored in the slowly gathering momentum of the miners' strike.