AGGREGATION in a Sentence

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For AGGREGATION, below is one of 11 sentences:
To turn cement into concrete it is mixed with aggregates such as sand, stones and crushed rocks, which act as reinforcement.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGGREGATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aggregation
 n.  several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Classic Sentence:
1  She believed herself to feel too much of it in the aggregate for honesty or safety in particulars.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  For some time back Mawson & Williams, the famous financial house, have been the guardians of securities which amount in the aggregate to a sum of considerably over a million sterling.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
3  Long in the aggregate, though short as they went by.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
4  In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
6  Veteran regiments in the army were likely to be very small aggregations of men.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
2  Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.
3  The football team had a low goal aggregate last season.
4  To turn cement into concrete it is mixed with aggregates such as sand, stones and crushed rocks, which act as reinforcement.
5  This starts off as a thick gel, but then hardens into a solid matrix that binds the aggregates together.