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flock English

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flock

A flock is a large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration. A flock is a large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.

flock

If you flock to a place, you go towards a place in large numbers. People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.

flock

move as a crowd or in a group Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears a church congregation guided by a pastor a group of birds (= troop) an orderly crowd a troop of children (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, wad) (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent a batch of letters a deal of trouble a lot of money he made a mint on the stock market see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos it must have cost plenty a slew of journalists a wad of money a group of sheep or goats (= cluster, constellate) come together as in a cluster or flock The poets constellate in this town every summer

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flock · verb

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Simple sentences

Birds of a feather flock together.
The hunter aimed a shotgun at the flock of birds.
There's a black sheep in every flock.
Wolves stalked the flock.
A sheep dog drives the flock to the pasture.
How many sheep are there in this flock?
Some poultry owners have lost their entire flock to foxes.
Every summer, thousands of South Koreans, Chinese and Japanese tourists flock to Jeju Island for its beautiful beaches and natural beauty.
Tourists flock to St Mark's Square every day.
Pigeons flock to St Mark's Square every day.
Pigeons as well as tourists flock to St Mark's Square every day.
How many rams are there in the flock?
I saw a flock of birds flying aloft.
I saw a flock of sheep.
A flock of birds whirled across the sky.
A flock of sheep was grazing in the fields.
I'm beginning to think that religious leaders are popular because they pander to the prejudices of the pack they call their flock.
A flock of birds is flying.
An artist is a sheep far from the flock.

Movie subtitles

I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock.
Send me up a whole flock of sandwiches.
It's a whole flock of detectives.
The whole flock of them.
Am I dreaming, or do I see a flock of birds?
They had the look of cats that had just swallowed a flock of birds.
She's so attractive, men naturally flock to her.
Well, that was a flock of wine we got away with.
Why, sure I got a match. I got a flock of 'em.
McCoy's got a flock of men. watching every road and cow path around there.
Give me a flock of change, Leo.
Because you make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock. and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty.
Out there's a flock of policemen and assistant DAs running around with their noses to the ground.
If you watch the shepherd, you're bound to find the flock.
One flock of sheep grazed on your land.
I'll get a flock of beautiful girls and give him a real African welcome.
We don't want a wine list. No? We want a flock more of pink ladies.
There's a flock of big birds in the pass.
Because you make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock, and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty.
Get to work before I hand out a flock of suspensions!
How'd you like a flock of weenies, a set of potato salad, a slab of chocolate cake, and a couple of bottles of very elegant beer for your dinner?
I understand. If you watch the shepherd, you're bound to find the flock.
Come on, I'll take the whole flock!
A priest can't advise his flock to wash their feet.
It looks like you've been jumped on by a 20-plus flock of wolves.

News and current affairs

I can testify from personal experience that investors would flock to Greece once the debt overhang was removed.
Talented individuals flock to the region not only because of generous options and decent pay, but also because they know they can find other good jobs if their employers fail.
Perhaps the most pressing constraint on agricultural production is the impending labor shortage, as rural young people, who traditionally comprise the agricultural labor force, flock to cities.
International commercial fossil collectors flock to the American West to vacuum up duckbills, carnivores, ceratopsians, and everything that will fetch a price.
Unlike the Communist regime, the new Russian state doesn't treat its citizens like a flock of sheep.
They become soccer widows, as their husbands flock to bars.
Businessmen, media moguls, and architects all flock there.
Animal-welfare advocates protest that crowding the chickens keeps them from forming a natural flock, causes them stress, and, in the case of laying hens, prevents them from even stretching their wings.
Experts on China differ on the rate of economic growth needed to create employment for the millions of Chinese who flock into the country's cities every year.
That allure is why foreign students from emerging countries around the world flock to Britain, putting millions of pounds annually into the coffers of its universities.
Some Russians fear that if China is allowed to build these projects, crowds of Chinese will flock into the country.
The knighted Professor was heading for the Freedom of the City of London (an obscure but valued honor that entitles the holder to drive a flock of sheep across London Bridge).
The young couple - he with a beard and she in a sundress and rubber boots - are homesteading in the Hudson River Valley with a flock of chickens, or in New Mexico in an ecofriendly straw-bale house.
As a result, big international corporations and Wall Street banks now flock to China, bypassing Taiwan.
The new American dream - a flock of chickens and a jar of pickles - represents the insight that the only people whom Americans can trust in a crisis are themselves.
Asia's lagging capacity for innovation is probably rooted in its rote education: Asian students, when they have the opportunity, flock to North American and European universities.

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