Sentence examples for gathering small from inspiring English sources

Thieves also set up roadside stands or sell to people who act as middlemen, gathering small amounts until they have enough to head to the broker.

At this point, however, Ms. Quinn plans to focus on gathering small contributions in order to increase her public matching funds.

Maybe there were 200 of them; a gathering small enough that, with their battery-powered candles, they looked like carol singers.

Under new campaign finance rules in Vermont, Mr. Pollina qualified for nearly $300,000 in public money by gathering small donations from 1,500 Vermonters around the state.

A small, fierce-eyed, plainspoken woman with graying hair stands in their midst, arms absent-mindedly gathering small children about her.

The Obama administration, not surprisingly considering its own success in gathering small donations during his campaign for the presidency, is supporting crowdfunding, a financing model that relies on collecting small sums of money from many people over the Internet.

It was impossible to visit North Hill without feeling what an occasion the visit was, and I remember well how affectionately slow the cadence of departure seemed, evening gathering, small-town Vermont lying just down the road, Wayne and Joe waving goodbye yet again.

In the courtyard soldiers were gathering the small handbills.

Then on Saturday, thousands of demonstrators turned out to mark the anniversary of the start of last year's protests, dividing up into clusters and gathering around small stages.

There's not a private office or cubicle anywhere, and there's constant low-level hubbub: people in motion, and gathering into small groups.

"We were not completely successful," he said, adding, "But we were more effective in gathering the small items, sculptures and the paintings, and getting them back".