Verb (used without object) : People waiting for rooms congregated in the hotel lobby.    From Dictionary.com. 

So many of them congregating were on the outskirts of the Old City.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2007] Reference

At twelve o'clock, yesterday, the crowd commenced congregating at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

What we really wanted to know is where are all of these patients congregating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010] Reference

We can see here, people are congregating in the quad right by the main office.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Gunman Fires on Another San Diego School - March 22, 2001] Reference

A congregating group of Spaniards discussing where to go next blocks the platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Barcelona] Reference

During the congregating of the crowd, I was in the tent -- the audience in waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

The Mosquito was never designed for - to stop teenagers congregating in a single area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosquito Targets Teens With Audio Repellent] Reference

I stepped to the window, and on the street were men congregating in front of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference

Protesters congregating earlier outside of the Washington building of Bechtel Corporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2008] Reference

So, they're sort of congregating in these various plazas, like the one that's just below me.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference

I lit a candle and ran out into the passage where were congregating my family in night attire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference

The wolves were hungry and told us so, congregating in great numbers for their nightly concerts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

"The press center is windowless," he says, "and you get flus from 100 nations congregating there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bylines] Reference

They are very social, congregating at each other's huts, and passing their time talking or sleeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference

When the Negroes were not busy they had a custom of congregating and talking about their sweethearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference

In the mean time, knots of travellers were congregating round the different vehicles about to depart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827] Reference

Also, the area where it goes down here, it doesn't appear that a lot of people would be congregating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007] Reference

They rushed toward one of the sleeping barracks, and saw that a large crowd was congregating around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference

LIPSMAN: What you have with these young people is close quarters and congregating and sharing of equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2007] Reference

The congregating of magpies on a house-top precedes an important event, in which the inmates are interested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Has always been an occasion, where these days we find more and more people congregating around a single radio.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2001] Reference

And that's why people have been congregating in the square and that's why we are covering this minute by minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005] Reference

People are congregating on corners in public parks, where a number people obviously have slept through the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference

He was duly established in his room with Dunk, and it was the congregating place of many of their freshmen friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery] Reference

People are congregating on corners, in public parks where a number of people obviously have slept through the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference

BLITZER: It looks like the terrorists are simply congregating on Iraq right now, looking for targets of opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2003] Reference

Through a cracked door, I could see there was a stretcher, a number of police officers, and medics were congregating there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

Towards the east they were congregating from the direction of Jacobsdal, and the extent occupied by them was already enormous.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

So no question, people can actually get the cold or flu by congregating indoors like they are here in the CNN newsroom -- Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2003] Reference

Right now, we have the hundreds of the cardinals congregating in Rome for this tremendous milestone, the pope's 25th anniversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2003] Reference

This is not like New Orleans where you had basically two locations, Superdome and Convention Center where people were congregating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2010] Reference

Sure enough, they were everywhere, marching across the bathroom floor and congregating on the kitchen counters and circling the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Saints, Angels, Bleach, Prayers" (2008)] Reference

The taxi was coming to a stop across the street from the Aquitaine, and in front of the theater where already a crowd was congregating.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

After some delay, the enemy threatening a crossing, the 3d corps followed the other troops, all congregating near Culpepper Court House.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

They hoot and barrack the screen, like school bullies congregating around the nerdy kid whose trousers have fallen down in the playground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promises Written in Water] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: A lot of focus and concern on the shelters, because people have been exposed to this water are congregating and meeting there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2005] Reference