How to Use agglomeration in a Sentence

agglomeration

noun
  • This suburb has become just a vast agglomeration of houses, people, and cars.
  • Her home, at the top of a winding road, is a sleek agglomeration of boxes in concrete, pale wood, and glass.
    — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms bonded to each other, just one atom thick; graphite is just an agglomeration of these sheets layered on top of each other.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2018
  • In fact, the museum is an agglomeration of spaces (and, to a degree, of collections) that have evolved over time.
    — Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
  • The forces of agglomeration, which big cities enable, are strongest in the kind of knowledge work that has become central to the economy.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • There’s a desire to mix tall buildings and shorter ones as a way to let sunlight in and keep the agglomeration of new buildings from overwhelming all of us down below.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 July 2019
  • The procession grew spontaneously into an agglomeration, and then a kind of protest.
    — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Museums certainly depend on agglomerations of wealth to build collections and sustain their mission, and artists are no strangers to greed.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • The comet consists of a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, and is likely no more than 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2020
  • What has been named the Whitechapel fatberg is a rock-solid agglomeration of fat, disposable wipes, diapers, condoms and tampons.
    — Amie Tsang, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Each agglomeration of equipment and data is effective in its own domain, but for the most part has little relevance to other bits of the body and the conditions that plague them.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Most left, and the WFP has shrunk down to a much smaller agglomeration of good government and do-gooder progressive groups.
    — David Freedlander, Daily Intelligencer, 7 June 2018
  • The team suggests the culprit is an agglomeration of dark matter, the mysterious but unseen stuff thought to make up 85% of the universe’s matter.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2020
  • At the lower end of the scale, some very small galaxies could be mistaken for globular clusters—agglomerations of up to a few million stars that form alongside galaxies.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 May 2026
  • Hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying essence of blood, is a shape-shifting agglomeration of four heme molecules and four proteins (globins).
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2016
  • Temporary agglomeration into ethnic enclaves, as in Sweden, may help immigrants in the short run.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • One contained Altice, which was really just an elaborate agglomeration of debts and corporate shells, moving around.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The most populated part of Malta is a dense agglomeration of towns near Valletta, the capital.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Lunar regolith, a loose agglomeration of volcanic ash, grit, stones and boulders, covers the moon to depths of perhaps 65 feet, topped by a thin layer of gritty, sharp volcanic dust.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • The dots on Toxmap cluster around major cities, forming dense agglomerations in the country’s most populated corridors.
    — Michael Schulson/undark, Popular Science, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Imagining such groups as little virtual villages is an old tech cliché, an echo from the days when the agglomerations of people on the internet were smaller, more like-minded and manageable.
    — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The industry’s reliance on network effects contributes to this agglomeration, says Muro.
    — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • About halfway through a six-week assembly process of mind-bending complexity, the equipment making up the tip of the iceberg is a house-size agglomeration of shiny metal tubes, opaque chambers, and wiring.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Manhattan's roads are a hellish agglomeration of potholes, double- and even triple-parking, and pedestrian and vehicle traffic unlike anywhere else in the country.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The museum has set itself an even more complex and delicate challenge, maneuvering a new segment into a beloved but chaotic agglomeration of buildings.
    — Curbed, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And a wholesale move out of China looks unfeasible, not least because few other places possess the expertise that agglomerations like Shenzhen have built up over the years.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches?
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The 117-acre agglomeration of shops, restaurants, office buildings, a movie theater, and waterpark, houses a huge network of sensors and video cameras.
    — Fortune, 14 July 2019
  • Scrosati spoke to Variety in Venice about his vision for how Fremantle is spawning a wide range of films from its organic agglomeration of companies.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The big bet of California Forever is that by acquiring enough land to build an entire city from scratch, the investors can profit from the economics of agglomeration.
    — Chris Elmendorf, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025

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