How To Use congeries In A Sentence
- For the Galaxy is nothing else than a congeries of innumerable stars distributed in clusters.
- Classical atomists conceived the universe as nothing more than an eternal congeries of material particles of different shapes and sizes perpetually in motion and continually coalescing to form unstable natural bodies.
- Whence this peculiar congeries of views, advanced with supreme self-confidence and heedless inattention to fact?
- It was on the periphery that the idea of ‘the British Empire as a congeries of territories linked by their commerce, united with common interests and centred politically upon London’ was most compelling.
- This congeries of topics enhances his story of the development of early American crime literature.
- To a materialist, we are just congeries of atoms; and atoms must go whithersoever they are driven by the laws of physics and blind chance.
- The fact is, the stomach is not a single organ, but in reality a congeries of organs, each receiving its own proper kind of aliment, and developing itself by outward bumps and prominences, which indicate with amazing accuracy the existence of the particular faculty to which it has been assigned. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
- In the very earliest works, humankind is most often figured as species, positioned within geological epochs and in elemental settings, rather than as a congeries of social beings within a recognizably human history.
- They started as congeries of commercial partnerships with a shared interest in excluding interlopers and securing the safety of their ships and fixed assets in parts of the world where no efficient or friendly state was to be found.
- Business in his day was a congeries of disconnected ventures.
