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
I can't afford to have bands who won't pull the crowds.
It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation. THY BROTHER DEATH
Pediatricians are once again extremely busy this winter as patients with asthma symptoms - the most common disease among children - are crowding into respiratory clinics.
The kings of the heartogram didn't fail to impress, with a diverse crowd gathered, including everyone from young punks to soccer moms and even a haggard old bat dancing around in lingerie.
Many shops and businesses were shut while crowds blocked traffic and chanted anti-government slogans. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately, says Burtch, nearly all crowdfunded ventures - more than 95 percent - do deliver promised goods to their backers eventually.
He craned his neck to look for his daughter in the crowd.
[12] The spermatozooids of certain plants can be strongly attracted towards a pipette which is filled with malic acid -- crowding around and into it with avidity. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
In Iowa, he didn't just win over the Democrats, the college-educated over $55K under 60 crowd, he won overjust about everybody that wasn't a die-hard Republican. Hillary's NH Lead In Suffolk Tracking Poll Cut By Nearly Half
The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
The crowd is a mix between trendy hotel visitors and posh Londoners.
The hospital is so overcrowded that some patients are being treated on trolleys in the corridors.
On the promotion campaign across 11 cities, the Dew Adventure Games with daredevil feats by international skate boarders and BMX bike riders drew huge crowds.
She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits. “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.
Our foreign correspondent reports that conditions in the refugee camps are filthy and overcrowded.
However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.
Boos and hisses came from the crowds at the sight of No Name's cowardliness.
Huge crowds are expected to file past the coffin, which will be guarded by a contingent of Gentlemen at Arms and Yeoman of the Guard.
I never mingle with the crowds that are being buncoed [sic] in the big department stores of Los Angeles.
The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France. Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
The crowd whooped and hollered at the unexpected entertainment.
I feared enormous crowds at Chawton paying hefty admission fees to file past animated wax figures.
There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds. The Fiddler in the Subway
Anyone can protest, but crowds are corralled by iron gates that keep them checked.
Soldiers were positioned at strategic points in the city and at election rallies where huge crowds gathered.
We start a three-way makeout as the entire crowd gapes at us, in shock. Get Laid or Die Trying
That put the pressure firmly on Best Mate's shoulders with the tension in the crowd palpable as the horses cantered down to the start.
The police responded by firing rubber bullets, wooden pellets, and tear gas into the crowd.
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
By now we had crowded her into the end of the reedbed. The Wire: David Petzal Tracks a Wounded Cape Buffalo
Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
Each year over the Fourth of July weekend, the Toppenish Pow Wow & Rodeo brings crowds of people to Toppenish to watch broncobusters and Native American dances.
Over 6,000 policemen and women were on the streets of central London backed up by mounted police, three police helicopters and numerous plainclothes spotters on the roofs and in the crowd.
The 6pm train is usually very crowded.
He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
Yet, there appeared to be a crowd forming around the sentry on guard there.
The crowd set up a shout as the winner neared the post.
Well, the often interesting BSS bunch pandered to the crowd and although they did do some self-indulgent jams, it was all by the book.
For two 50-minute sets the crowd shrugged and shimmied to the rhythm of a more blithe and brilliant era.
The crowd is chock-a-block with people who like all kinds of music, and there are only very few acts that can cater for such an assorted group of people.
His golden eyes glinted as he suddenly moved trough the crowd with lightning speed and grabbed a young boy by the collar.
It was unacceptable that anxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident and emergency departments.
Jagang didn't want her slipping out of their snare by hiding in crowds of people, or escaping by pretending to be a lowly washwoman. The Pillars of Creation
Diana's house was crowded with happy people whose spontaneous outbursts of song were accompanied by lively music.
The entire crowd of guests cheered and applauded as the two walked towards the dance floor.
A great cheer went up from the crowd.
The driver honked the horn of his car hoping to disperse the crowd in the street.
The city was overcrowded with tall skyscrapers and noisy vehicles of all sorts.
Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
Scantily clad go-go girls give the crowd something to look at.
The tactful use of his skills and a clear understanding of the game have made this young man an instant favourite with the crowds in an alien land.
The crowd stepped aside to make way for the procession.
They crowded around me and watched me expectantly, as if I would spill my darkest, most revealing secrets.
In one documented incident soldiers shot directly into a crowd of protesters. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd filled, the floor became packed, as a new group of yellow-clad musicians came out---high in an alcove---bearing enormous drums. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The crowds had all gone home and the street was quiet once more.
WINDING ALONG HIGH ground where tall oaks, maples, and hickories crowded the sky, we descended to a swampy bottom filled with palmettos, water oaks, gums, and bald cypresses. Fire The Sky
They let the crowd throught the entrances 2 hours before the football match started.
The commentators were discussing defensive match-ups while the camera was panning over the crowd, occasionally stopping on a celebrity.
And there is no blaring music or huge crowds to deal with poolside, either. The Sun
Let us walk away with the lessons of this," Gray told the crowd of dozens of employees, after adding that such an incident can "intimidate" elected officials from participating in outreach such as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's event Saturday. D.C. government observes moment of silence for Ariz. victims
Everything would then be crowded together in a state of infinite density: the end of the universe.
There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
Our already overcrowded court rooms could be swamped with such otherwise upright and law abiding citizens.
The aisles of the exhibition floor were uncrowded and the mood was relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
The buyers crowded into the salesroom.
The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers.
While there are plenty of party girls still sporting low-slung bell bottoms, the hippest in the crowd are swishing around in kicky full skirts, miniskirts and skirts with dipping hemlines.
You can just imagine the wind howling round outside while everyone crowds into a stone cottage, a fire roaring in the grate and a group of friends simply playing together for the sheer fun of it.
Most of the victims had dwelt in the crowded slums that had grown up around the factory on the outskirts of the city. Times, Sunday Times
A few well-garlanded madams of the society crowd passed by, gossiping, their rich black minks set for the chill in the Springtime air, their heels clopping gently on the sidewalk.
The hall was crowded to the door.
But the police were reluctant because of issues over crowd dispersal and transport.
He dips his chin, and just as an expectant gasp ripples through the crowd, Eddie launches himself over the wall into a bramble of wild roses.
It was about 10 o'clock when a murmur went through the crowd as the low drone of an aircraft was heard in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
A small crowd had gathered outside the church.
But the younger sister was an actress even then; loud, raucous and playing to the crowd.
The speaker worked the crowd up into a frenzy.
Last year, Wavves (a.k.a. Nathan Williams) emerged from the crowded, static-filled indie-rock underground thanks to an abundance of pop hooks that fought through the fuzz of his lo-fi home recordings. Getting Up Guide: Spoken-word showcase; Sly Fox brew tasting
The glorious end came so quickly it almost took the crowd by surprise. Times, Sunday Times
LMAO the crowd in accra are singing and blowing on their vuvuzelas untill forlan equalizes for uruguay. WN.com - Articles related to Graham Poll: Now let's have penalty goals to beat cheats like Uruguay's Luis Suarez
He jostled his way through a crowd.
A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened.
The telly and the players pick up on crowd vibe like no other sport. The Sun
The supercomputing crowd tends to set the pace for technology adoption across the server market.
Crowdsourcing is in some ways similar to open source software production.
The crowd was unbelievable and the best thing is that it is my wedding anniversary today. Times, Sunday Times
Dementieva's best moment of the day came during the trophy presentation when she spoke in fluent French to the delight of the crowd. USATODAY.com - Myskina beats Dementieva to win French Open title
EXAMPLE: The street merchant is a skilled pitchman who can attract a crowd to his tiny sidewalk stand within less than a minute.
I just had to push you into the crowd first because I knew you would chicken out and not jump.
Overall, the night was infused with a special energy that came from the fresh faces in the sell-out crowd of 430 as well as from the glam factor.
As she cycled alone to the line, she had time to grab a national flag from the jubilant crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The group reaches the elevator queue to find a crowd of roughly two hundred students milling about restlessly.
The street was so crowded that cars were unable to pass.
Now we live in a more crowded, environmentally aware age and trains are back in fashion.
Three thousand audience crowded the concert hall.
Concept demos of LTE applications: connected car, e-health, crowdcasting, mobile e-commerce, geolocation ... www. alcatel-lucent.com Drag to Playlist WN.com - Articles related to Aricent Signaling Software Platform to Power Interphase High-Density SS7 Cards
Cue more abuse from the crowd. The Sun
He cupped his ears in celebration to roars from the crowd when it was announced he had secured the bronze medal. Times, Sunday Times
As the roadies began setting up Pearl Jam's gear, I spent the down time checking out the crowd.
The crowd were so well behaved, without an intoxicating drink passing their lips.
Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
It also set out plans to cause many casualties by releasing the disease in crowded areas. Times, Sunday Times
A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters. Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See
Adam wormed his way through the crowd to his hut.
Walking awkwardly after two hip operations, he was given a warm reception by the multiracial crowd. Times, Sunday Times
He was affected badly by the barracking that he got from the crowd.
A number of questions crowded to Gregory's mind, as they crossed the jettied inlet and headed down the coast. El Diablo
The murmuring, fluttering sounds of the crowd echoed off the high ceilings and stone arches of the chapel.
Both the speaker and his speech were drowned out by the disapproval of the crowd.
I shall say my little piece first, then ev ap orate into the crowd and watch your performance from among the grrroundlings. POLITICAL SUICIDE
Channing Crowder, hands-down winner of this week's chowderhead award for confusing Anne Frank and Helen Keller in a fit of pique, has struggled with history and geography before. Channing Crowder hears from Le'Ron McClain over spitting allegation
The crowds relaxed into laughter at the speaker's excellent joke.
A deafening cheer went up from the crowd.
Crowds, especially crowds that become hunting packs are very frightening.
Patients are languishing on trolleys in record numbers as ministers disagree with doctors about whether people have any alternative to attending overcrowded A&E units. Times, Sunday Times
Because it's Monday and it's a school day, the crowd is a lot smaller, (but) it appears a lot of people aren't going to work or school," said Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt. Los Angeles Heat Wave Bakes At Record 113 Degrees
But they ended up with a huge crowd as punters flocked into the tent to escape the lashing rain. The Sun
Witches, goblins, ghosts, ghouls and some gothic mums and dads were among an estimated 9,000 crowd that turned out for what is believed to be the country's largest Halloween party.
The crowds get excited when their teams attack - even when they are winning.
In the ancient villages, where the lodges were crowded together, the railings were always present. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
A country festival had brought together thousands of people; they pressed about the Emperor, who had mingled with the throng, with ringing shouts of "eljen" [_vive_]; they danced the csardas, waltzed, sang, played music, climbed into the trees, and crowded the court. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
Perhaps the vicarage here too had been crowded, damp, unhealthy. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
After the drivers were introduced by a traveling emcee called ‘The Motor Mouth,’ an invocation and the national anthem, cars left at one-minute intervals to cheers from the crowd.
The speaker worked the crowd up into a frenzy.
He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd.
He had asked to wear thick underclothes under his shirt as he was very concerned that if he shivered in the cold, the crowd might think that he was scared.
Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others? The English Is Coming!
Don't bother wading through those crowded pages with their ancient typesets and such. Nick Mamatas' Journal
A hush descended on the crowd as the village chief began to speak.
By the end, riot police had to subdue parts of the crowd. Christianity Today
She stumbles off the escalator and is swept along with the crowd of Asian businessmen and tourists towards the luggage carousel.
Early as it was, crowds of American, English, and Continental tourists were abroad, their gleaming white drill attire and tobies and helmets, conspicuous among the grander colour of the natives. The Mark of the Beast
In contrast to the rowers and the cyclists, British swimmers seemed weighed down rather than buoyed by the roars of the home crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The eager crowd are easily malleable in the Lady's gaze.
The crowd began to stir as they waited for the band to start.
The gryphons 'claws clicked metallically on the marble floor, and the bulk of the Palace muffled the sounds of the crowd outside. Widows and Orphans
After all, I had distanced myself from the granola crowd the year before by skiing in knickers rather than blue jeans and gaiters.
Also there was Ray D' Arcy whose urgings had the crowd performing all sorts of histrionics in the name of art.
A large crowd of reporters collected outside the Prime Minister's house.
The crowd cheered on the unknown Tunisian, hoping for a fairy-tale ending to the race.
Much is riding on the new one-day format's capacity to attract young and old to a version of the game which is played midweek up and down the country in club cricket but has never before been offered up as a county crowd-puller.
Live music and a pig roast are other attractions that draw large crowds to The Carew.
The crowds which have been passing to and fro during the whole day, are rapidly dwindling away; and the noise of shouting and quarrelling which issues from the public – houses, is almost the only sound that breaks the melancholy stillness of the night. Sketches by Boz
When the rain came down the crowds started to disperse.
The blast yesterday ripped through crowds of pilgrims and vendors of food and religious paraphernalia. Times, Sunday Times
Both the speaker and his speech were drowned out by the disapproval of the crowd.
Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic. At Good Old Siwash
The intersections become street-performing pitches, and crowds of hundreds watch someone escape from a straitjacket or juggle machetes or eat fire.
Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering. Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
For families in the poverty trap this was a year of suffering with increased rentals driving families to share houses in overcrowded conditions and stress making more families dysfunctional.
There would be no cheering crowd, and maybe that was what he felt now, the metallic taste of battle rage pent up. SONS OF HEAVEN
A speaker system has been rigged up to relay the service to crowds outside.
The traditional archery crowd moaned about how compounds would ruin bowhunting and that they should be used in a separate season, yet look how much more popular bowhunting is now because of the compound bow. NRA Pushes PA Crossbows
The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home.
The show follows the traditional plot of the fairytale story but with plenty of comedy and slapstick to keep the crowds entertained for both evening and matinee performances.
The deer and turkey populations are very high in these areas, and during bow season there is lots of uncrowded public land; gun season can be a differeint story so to beat the crowd I hunt on private land. Good hunting in Ohio
An element of the crowd began to hoot and catcall during the speeches, setting a disorderly tone for the following proceedings.
But then a bouncer single-handedly pushes them all back, tipping the crowd three steps down the steps. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
He gazed out into the sun-bathed crowd assembled in front of the stand in the clearing in Donadea forest.
The crowd gave the serial killer blank stares as he was escorted from the courtroom.
My vitriolic attack on posers shall now be reserved for a subset of the brown crowd ‘cuz I like making fun of my people.
Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine. The Shagganappi
The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
He told a crowd outside the Santa Maria courtroom: ‘There is some dynamite stuff on these tapes.’
If I weren't set up for that and were looking for outside hosting, I'd probably go for something like Meilin Miranda's latest brainstorm, which is a co-hosting site for authors doing crowdsourced fiction: DigitalNovelists. com. Ceciliatan: Web serial novel: how the experiment is going
The crowd stood and cheered when the two appeared together, Romo sporting a choppy bob instead of her famous long locks.
The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city
He climbed it and was stopped short when he saw the size of the crowd on the blacktop roof.
I'm on a railway platform trying to get to work during a period of heavy storms (service is totally knacked) and I'm in uniform with a crowd around me seriously dis-chuffed and about to remove my nipple rings without unclipping them. I HATE COMPUTERS ( a therapy intermission)
Crowded shops are a happy hunting-ground for pick-pockets.
Crowds lined the route, waving flags and cheering.
He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
London was not the only place with unruly crowds. The English Civil War: A People's History
He stepped into the spotlight to the wild applause of the crowd.
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
The most common dog in Japan is making its way to the United States, taking up residence in uptown penthouses and becoming a fashion statement for the hip crowd in Greenwich Village or Chelsea.
He held his arms out to the crowd as he bellowed the chorus and danced.
They hyped up the crowd with TV to sell their political policy.
A little farther away, in the crowd, a young man with a blue tie and a fleur-de-lys in his buttonhole, sells pamphlets of monarchist poetry in honor of Louis de Bourbon for 5 euros.
Central to the latest McCain drive is an attempt to use against Mr. Obama the huge crowds and excitement he has drawn, including on his foreign trip last week, by promoting a view of him as more interested in attention and adulation than in solving the problems facing American families. The Early Word: Whose Narrative Is It, Anyway? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
They are more similar to dried beans than either crowder or black-eyed peas, and make a clear liquor when cooked.
Adam Lee burst into the crowd and pulled the bleeding Rebel from the battered Yankee.
The crowd should have been prostrate, the women ululating.
A host of excitable angels crowds around the manger's tiny, brightly lit doll. Times, Sunday Times
And as it gets hold of you it crowds your mind and heart and life till every other is either crowded out, or crowded to a lower place; _out_, if it jars; _lower place_, if it agrees, for every agreeing bit yields to the lead of this tremendous message. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel
So a first home goal produced a first home win in front of Chester's biggest crowd of the season, who gave the team and their chuffed new manager a standing ovation.

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