Sentence examples for instead of gathering around from inspiring English sources

Instead of gathering around, tech journalists were given multi-colored wooden chairs in an intimate space somewhere in New York city.

But, instead of gathering around him, the sheep fled in the opposite direction, bumbling into each other and defecating indiscriminately on the white floor.

For a long time, the eldest son of the deceased head of the family refused to comply with the response team's advice to minimise contact within the family, and to disperse in the various family houses instead of gathering around the central ones.

Others were distracted by the intimacy of gathering around a long wooden table.

The festivity consists of gathering around the fire and socializing.

A little bloodshed is good for the news business, particularly if journalism professionals are back to shooting at each other instead of collectively gathering around their own grave, hand-wringing and waiting to be pushed in by a dismissive and disinterested public.

Instead of gathering, why don't we scatter to the four winds?

Instead of gathering us into the town square, the new information technology clusters us into social cubicles.

Instead of "gathering information," why not just say, "not done yet"?

The study highlights the importance of looking at each immigrant group individually instead of gathering them into one seemingly heterogeneous group.

It became clear that the good people of the Mediterranean, instead of growing vegetables and gathering around the table for salad and sardines every evening, were flopping down in front of the telly to eat a takeaway – just like us.