(a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(2) Cytological features are in agreement with the gregarious behaviour of cockroaches.
(3) Path analysis procedures were used to test a causal model that concerns possible antecedent conditions in relation to gregarious drinking patterns.
(4) He inherited his father's calculation and his mother's gregariousness and style.
(5) Backstage, Gabbana – the more gregarious of the two – will talk about fashion as fantasy, last season explaining his vision thus: “I have this life … I want to be happy.
(6) Famously, she lit a lamp in her window, as a welcoming sign to the vast Irish diaspora; deliberately – there was no lack of steel in her campaign, and she quickly showed a willingness to exploit the gaffes of often incompetent rivals – she made herself less private and austere, acquiring suits by Irish designers, trying, above all, to be more open and approachable, more, she told Byrne, like her own warm, gregarious mother.
(7) The imposing and gregarious Midlands-born banker tried and failed to buy Northern Rock before it was nationalised in February 2008 and then missed out on 318 Royal Bank of Scotland branches last year.
(8) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
(9) These patients also showed significant differences on the MCMI asocial, gregarious, and neurotic depression scales.
(10) Passive avoidance learning occupies a central role in accounts of disinhibited behavior, ranging from psychopaths' persistent criminality (Hare 1970) to extraverts' gregariousness (Gray, 1972).
(11) Bank swallows nest gregariously in colonies usually ranging from 10 to 300 nests.
(12) When we sit down for a more formal interview in his Manhattan hotel room a few hours later, Ross's earlier gregarious anecdotes are replaced by aphorisms that could come straight off one of those inspirational posters you see in recruitment consultant offices.
(13) Light-microscopically, pleomorphic tumor cells clustered gregariously and often formed alveolar structures.
(14) American Indians and Hispanos have a greater tendency to drink gregariously, to drink more, and to have more disruption in social role functioning.
(15) Females of two hamster species with contrasting degrees of gregariousness were tested for social influences on the timing of sexual maturation.
(16) He is a gregarious media grandee, who was born into the royal family of UK showbusiness.
(17) 2) Traditionals, healthy at both ages, were gregarious and nurturant.
(18) "Affectionately known as Corporal Hamer in the office, he was a gregarious figure, a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues.
(19) When female dwarf hamsters (Phodopus sungorus campbelli), a gregarious species, were housed with an adult male at weaning, they began estrous cycles significantly earlier than when they were housed alone or with their family.
(20) Experiments were performed to evaluate the status of antibacterial defensive responses in M. sexta larvae parasitized by this gregarious endoparasitoid.
Loquacious
Definition:
(a.) Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
(a.) Speaking; expressive.
(a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of his advisers, Jen Psaki, said last week: "The president is familiar with his own loquaciousness and his tendency to give long, substantive answers."
(2) During his last trip to China in 2013, the loquacious London mayor bamboozled Chinese interpreters with his use of words such as polymorphous and joked about his Bullingdon Club days to a senior Communist party leader.
(3) They outsourced much of the press publicity to guest performers such as Pharrell Williams and the loquacious Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
(4) Aso, a loquacious politician with a knack for verbal blunders, vowed to put his gaffe-prone past behind him when he became leader two months ago.
(5) This is leaving both young people and businesses without the skills they need to succeed for the future.” Analysis: On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the normally loquacious shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, seemed to lose his sure touch when Sarah Montague questioned him on the figures.
(6) With his rotund figure, swarthy complexion, harrumphing manner, horn-rimmed spectacles, transatlantic tones and tendency to lurk loquaciously about the aisles at the interval, he was a familiar figure at West End openings.
(7) Anecdotal reports suggest that children with Williams syndrome are loquacious, affectionate, charming, open, and gentle.
(8) An hour in his company confirms all three characteristics, and "loquacious" and "political" must have been close contenders for inclusion too.
(9) The loquacious “ginger one from Super Saturday” whose dad recently built him a long jump pit in his back garden, now keeps the most exalted of company.
(10) A previous study demonstrated the existence in these patients of a syndrome of mildly elevated psychomotor rate, including irritability, grandiosity, an increased need for social contact, loquaciousness, and sexual preoccupation.
(11) This study found that the deaf children responded more loquaciously to questions than they did to statements or expressions of ideas; and the children did not have success in continuing topics of conversation.
(12) In 2007, I spent a deliriously enjoyable hour talking to Denis Healey, who was about to turn 90 - and may not have been quite as loquacious as when he was in charge of the UK economy, but still delivered, in spades.
(13) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
(14) "ISI extols the virtues of some Taliban elements" read one small headline that provided no other details; otherwise loquacious television anchors were largely silent on the matter.
(15) Irish actor Saoirse Ronan lamented her loquaciousness recently after revealing her audition publicly, only to be told she had not won a part.
(16) The loquacious Ulsterman was a right-half like "Billy Nick", but there the resemblance ended.
(17) In recent meetings George Osborne, the normally loquacious chancellor, was said to have gone quiet, possibly tongue-tied by being the one who hired Coulson in the first place.
(18) Williams syndrome is associated with intellectual and growth retardation, infantile feeding problems which may be associated with hypercalcaemia, cardiovascular abnormalities, a friendly, loquacious personality, and a typical facies.