Sentence examples for were gathering up from inspiring English sources

"The violence was increasing; all the different tribes were gathering up weapons".

"It looked like they were gathering up the wrapping papers and all that stuff".

He said they were gathering up the bodies to take to the provincial capital as proof that civilians were killed.

Hundreds of people were gathering up there, including some really serious watchers - you should have seen the huge fancy telescopes some of them had.

Survivors said they were gathering up the bodies, picking up limbs and body parts from the streets and adjoining orchard, and carrying the wounded to the village mosque, when the soldiers arrived.

I'd been told that the playground had pyramid-like structures, but the mood did not exactly bespeak advanced culture: All around, kids who looked too old to be there in the first place were gathering up the slushy snow and flinging it wildly at one another.

"We are gathering up all the pieces," Capt.

Gradually, he's gathering up material, going into the history, immersing himself in Icelandic sagas.

The billions of tweets that Twitter is gathering up could certainly be the basis for a vast, searchable archive.

One morning, she said, "I was gathering up her son's clothes, but I didn't do it properly.

One trick the robots cannot perform is gathering up stray Lego blocks and putting themselves away once play is over.