gaggle

• I'll stick to amazing my nieces and nephews until they get too worldly and sophisticated, and lock embarrassing old Uncle Nick in the cellar when their friends come over Amanda flashed on an image of Nick juggling for a gaggle of children. —  ABC Amber LIT Converter
• He spent several days haunting the meadow where his friend found the dead honker, hoping it was part of a flock or a gaggle or whatever the English word for a group of honkers was. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• I wandered inside past the rag-tag gaggle of modern gypsies which inevitably haunted these terminals, studied the big board while the ticket agent pursed her lips in distaste. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
• What do you think That the use of the word "gaggle" did not sustain your metaphor, suggesting, as it does, the presence of geese and not of dogs-or do they dock the tails of Anser Aibifrons, Anser Brachyrhynchus and others of their ilk You win,' said Laura. —  ADDERS ON THE HEATH
• The moment Rylla took her chair of state, Outtime Studies Director Talgran Dreth, Lathor Karv, and Varnath Lala poured forth a cacophony of complaints, which sounded more like the gaggle of geese than educated discourse from Home Time-Line scholars. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html

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