[
UK
/kɹˈaʊd/
]
[ US /ˈkɹaʊd/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹaʊd/ ]
VERB
-
approach a certain age or speed
She is pushing fifty -
fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
The students crowded the auditorium -
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
We herded the children into a spare classroom -
to gather together in large numbers
men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
NOUN
-
an informal body of friends
he still hangs out with the same crowd -
a large number of things or people considered together
a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
How To Use crowd In A Sentence
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
- Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
- I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
- At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
- Some putz suddenly takes the stage to announce me and exclaim excitedly that this was my ‘largest sold-out crowd to date!’.
- As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
- But anywhere else, the general buzz of the atmosphere would have sustained the crowd.
- Enforcers in full-face helmets were everywhere, striding through the crowd with arrogance born of unchallenged supremacy.
- Instead of leaving, the fish crowded towards the back of the Redondo Beach marina and used all the oxygen in the water, marine experts have said. Millions of sardines die in Californian marina