I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a throng of memories. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He thronged the picture with stars. ,They thronged the small room. From Dictionary.com.
Somebody hath touched -- yes, the multitude "thronged" and pressed. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
"thronged" condition of the jails, at that "hot season," and after trying one person only, it should have adjourned for four weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference
A photogenic young woman is thronged by paparazzi. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Romance] Reference
And it happened as he went that he was thronged by the multitudes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
That town was thronged with nonchalant women and blue-clad poilus. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
The station was thronged with people waiting for the Kowloon express. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference
The men and boys from outside thronged the tiny anteroom and the steps. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Hundreds more thronged centers where the Red Cross organized volunteers. From Wordnik.com. [The Toll On Our Psyche] Reference
Last month, a crowd thronged Milan's Arena Civica to catch an unusual match. From Wordnik.com. [The Separatist’s World Cup] Reference
Bless me! the field of marvels seems more thronged, as I approach it closer. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Where are the people who thronged thy theaters and trod thy beautiful streets?. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
The walks under the thick-leafed elms were thronged with talking, laughing groups. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
But there was no lack of activity among the immense creatures who thronged around us. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Fortunately, he had the others, the crowd of assiduous pros who thronged round his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Masses of Roman troops, with polished shields and glittering arms, thronged the vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Little wonder that few people have thronged the streets to cheer their Western liberators. From Wordnik.com. [A Plan Under Attack] Reference
A great crowd thronged about Bartz, asking him hundreds of different questions, excitedly. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Early in the morning the highways are thronged with people on their way to and from the markets. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
At his word, sulphurous smokes arose, and from the thronged assembly seven hideous forms broke forth. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
A long, tense standoff followed in which hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians thronged the streets in protest. From Wordnik.com. [PUTIN TRIPS UP] Reference
But when at last the night arrived, Peace was not among the guests who thronged the gayly decorated parsonage. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
It's Friday night in the northern English city of Newcastle, and the streets are thronged with cheerful boozers. From Wordnik.com. [The New Booze Economy] Reference
People came to him from all quarters, and his abode was thronged by all ages and conditions who came for advice. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
The crowds which thronged around him were so great that the neighboring towns were not able to accommodate them. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Old Delhi is a vibrant but sooty conglomeration of streets and bazaars, thronged with people and cycle rickshaws. From Wordnik.com. [A South Asian Goldmine] Reference
More than 6,000 miles away, the streets of Tehran were thronged with protesters, police, and pro-government thugs. From Wordnik.com. [Up Against Tehran’s Firewall] Reference
The great theatre at Ephesus was thronged; over fifty thousand people had gathered together to witness a new play. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Thousands thronged 125th Street as Brown's body was carried through the streets of Harlem on a horse-drawn carriage. From Wordnik.com. [Harlem Says Its Farewell to James Brown] Reference
For hundreds of years the city thronged with economic migrants or fugitives from religious persecution on the Continent. From Wordnik.com. [SPECIAL REPORT: LONDON CALLING] Reference
Great crowds of people thronged the banks, wondering if the bridge would go out or would stand the strain of pounding icecakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Ago] Reference
They drove through the Halles and the Rue de Rambuteau, thronged with kitchen-gardeners 'wagons; and, near the end of the Rue des. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To meet the debts that thronged upon him, and the interest by which they were aggravated, he had stripped himself of his ancestral farms. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
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