How to Use converge in a Sentence

converge

verb
  • The two roads converge in the center of town.
  • Economic forces converged to bring the country out of a recession.
  • Students converged in the parking lot to say goodbye after graduation.
  • Many companies are combining rapidly converging communication technology into one device that can act as a phone, take photographs, and send e-mail.
  • About two years ago, both sets of responses converged at about two days.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Carter was not just a religious man but a profoundly moral one (the two do not always converge).
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Top surfers from around the world would converge to La Bocana, a small town with the best pupusas anywhere.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Adams has the ability to score from the 3-point arc and drive inside with an array of strong moves, often getting to the free-throw line as defenders converge on him to try to stop him.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Rarely is this more apparent than at the start of the New Year, when diet culture, fatphobia and capitalism converge.
    Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2021
  • As the factors that can drive wildfires converge, the potential for increasingly severe wildfires looms ever larger.
    Virginia Iglesias, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But Republicans, in particular, have converged around this issue in recent years.
    Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The marches started in different locations, with protesters meant to converge on the presidential palace.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The tracks even converge at one point, leaving scientists to wonder if the creatures that left them interacted during their voyage, reported Reuters.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Ideally, the industry will converge around a set of principles and best-practices for making machine learning models more energy-efficient.
    Joao Graca, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Healthcare and industry leaders need to converge more often, either in person or virtually, to come to the table with solutions that benefit patients and the bottom line.
    Tlalit Bussi Tel Tzure, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The daughter and the students converge in the figure of the girl.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • The Cubs had four players converge at the same spot in the outfield.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 1 July 2022
  • But at the end of the day, the region itself does not want to converge to its neighbors, to the north.
    CBS News, 22 June 2022
  • King’s words echoed through speakers across the grounds of the park before the peace walk was to converge with the march.
    Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
  • People from all around the city would converge on the island to play.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2022
  • At the end of each day, the reprogrammed drones/bees form a lethal swarm to converge on and kill the person at the top of the list.
    Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Images show the once bustling street barren as dark smoke converged over the town.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The two teams need to converge, but this is a slow-going effort.
    Patrick Ostiguy, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Those scouts converging on Bellarmine are proof to the point.
    The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The only realms where races converge, Joseph said, are sports and music.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • With the rise of ransomware, those three things often converge.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Every winter the world’s best surfers converge on the lineup to test their courage and try to score the barrel of their life.
    Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The fates of the protagonists converge in one race, the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Picture a clump of grass—a spray of flat green blades that converge into sturdy tubes near the ground.
    Julia Rosen, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The loves of their life converged in a dusty stairwell outside Pauley Pavilion.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024

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