GREGARIOUS in a Sentence

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1. Natural selection in gregarious animals operates upon groups rather than upon individuals.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREGARIOUS
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gregarious
 a.  sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others
Classic Sentence:
1  The Fin-Back is not gregarious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
3  It was so that the gregarious animals had overcome the predaceous; it was so, in human history, that the people had mastered the kings.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
4  Young lady, I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative to-night.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  Natural selection in gregarious animals operates upon groups rather than upon individuals.