throng
IPA: θrˈɔŋ
noun
- A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
- A group of things; a host or swarm.
verb
- (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
- (intransitive) To congregate.
- (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
adjective
- (Northern England, Scotland) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
- (Northern England, Scotland) Busy; hurried.
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Examples of "throng" in Sentences
- Joining the throng are the Budget Rent a Car unit of the Cendant Corporation ….
- Her throng was the air, and her wings were the multitude of flying movements in her brain.
- Outside the throng was a carriage, stopp'd for a minute by this tumult, and a servant at the horses 'heads.
- As it happened, Sen. Joe Lieberman was also at the airport, surrounded by a throng from the national press corps.
- Among the figures in the throng was a young man named Robert Vaughn, who would go on to become a well-known actor in films and television.
- Among the throng was a strong contingent of young men from Liskeard, a town three miles distant, between whom and the youth of Menheniot an ancient feud existed.
- Near the outer edge of the throng was a red-lipped Juno, superbly rounded, who had gleaned in the fields until she was all a Gipsy brown, and her movements of a Gipsy grace in their freeness.
- As the hour for the arrival of the stage approached, the crowd massed in front of the hotel, filling the lobby, the arcade and the street, and still scattered through the throng were the men from the
- Iffesheim was pure pleasure, like every other item of Baden existence, and all aristocratic, sparkling, rich, amusement-seeking Europe seemed gathered there under the sunny skies, and on everyone's lips in the titled throng was but one name -- Forest King's.
- Lafayette on his white horse and a host of people of the slums, but this time in the midst of the throng was a great lumbering coach, in which rode Louis and his wife and children, for Paris now insisted that the court should no longer possess the freedom of Versailles in which to plot unwatched against the rights of the French people.
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