How To Use Crowded In A Sentence

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
As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
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
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
The hospital is so overcrowded that some patients are being treated on trolleys in the corridors.

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.
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
The 6pm train is usually very crowded.
It was unacceptable that anxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident and emergency departments.
Diana's house was crowded with happy people whose spontaneous outbursts of song were accompanied by lively music.
The city was overcrowded with tall skyscrapers and noisy vehicles of all sorts.
They crowded around me and watched me expectantly, as if I would spill my darkest, most revealing secrets.
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
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.
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
The hall was crowded to the door.
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
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 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.
It also set out plans to cause many casualties by releasing the disease in crowded areas. Times, Sunday Times
A number of questions crowded to Gregory's mind, as they crossed the jettied inlet and headed down the coast. El Diablo
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
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
Don't bother wading through those crowded pages with their ancient typesets and such. Nick Mamatas' Journal
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.
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
The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city
Crowded shops are a happy hunting-ground for pick-pockets.
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
I don't like having to navigate London's crowded streets.
The prisoners were filed off to the seaports and crowded into cattle-wagons, the awnings of which, hermetically closed, let in no breath of air.
Meanwhile many crowded to the spot, especially followers of Conrade and officers of the Stradiots, who, as they saw their leader lie gazing wildly on the sky, raised him up amid a tumultuary cry of “Cut the slave and his hound to pieces!” The Talisman
a young mother's crowded days
Inspired by an uninvited muse two days before le jour de l'action de grace, this geezer rolled up his sleeves, cleared a crowded kitchen counter, and proceeded to create deux pain complet weighing at least two pounds each. Potiron - French Word-A-Day
No one scored again until the third period when we crowded the front of the net and the point took a slapshot that the goalie never saw.
Where passengers had stood crushed against one another in the crowded train, there was empty space. Times, Sunday Times
Unilateral ovariectomy in rabbits doubles the ovulation rate in the remaining ovary and the adjacent uterine horn is crowded with embryos.
In fact, the nation's highways and byways are getting even more crowded.
Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
I soon began to notice the sidewalks were more crowded than usual.
In another hundred years people will look back at a world that was less crowded, full of natural wonders, and healthier. Times, Sunday Times
Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been exterminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants. Prayers To Broken Stones
The campsite is usually crowded all day long with friends and fans who want to stop by and relax in our FirstShowing. net Lounge. The FirstShowing.net Lounge: Kicking Off the Summer in Style! « FirstShowing.net
But many of today's internet billionaires started out as insubordinate slackers, similar to the high school students who crowded Beijing's internet bars and - allegedly - neglected their schoolwork.
The delegates crowded the floor of the House.
Tackling insanitary, overcrowded living conditions, installing clean water and sewage systems, and proper public hygiene regimes are other key steps.
The streets were crowded with shoppers.
So many thoughts of Haas were now crowded into her mind all at once.
In the midst of crowded environment, his mind is collected and undistracted.
The suitcase was too overcrowded to close.
An sparsely populated, ungroomed black run is relatively much safer than a crowded 'bloomer'. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
In the very crowded skies of north-east America, planes are restricted to very tightly controlled lanes.
I guess its not as glamorous as Montana or Alaska, but there are miles of uncrowded waters. Nominate the Best Fly Fishing State in America
But as I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing — at least, what untattooed parts might remain — I did not trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale. Moby Dick; or the Whale
These days, with long lines, invasive x-rays requiring near-nudity, constant delays, smaller, more crowded planes and the threat of terrorism, the flying experience is frustrating and challenging enough without some buffoon sitting next to me making the flight even more unpleasant. Andy Ostroy: Ostroy's List of Air-Travel Don'ts
With two conflicting styles of dancing taking place simultaneously on sometimes crowded dance floors, collisions are bound to happen.
The bus was very crowded with a number of people standing as all the seats were occupied.
With whole families living side by side, often crammed into a few square feet of space, the communities are now crowded and insanitary dots of green in a vast inland sea.
Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
In this situation, the solution to full trains is apparently to hector people not to get on; the solution to full platforms is to stop people getting down to the platform; the solution to crowded stations is to close the station.
That, too, was absurdly crowded, not least because of a rare live appearance from, yes, Lily Savage.
Supporters crowded through the gates into the stadium.
Their eyes met across a crowded room.
Carlisle levelled the scores 10 minutes later when the ball was pushed through a crowded circle past the partially unsighted goalie.
"Such," says an official report, "is the lack of houseroom in the city that any kind of tenement can be immediately crowded with lodgers, if there is space."
The trio have been firm friends since nursery school, where they met across a crowded sandpit aged three and a half.
An overcrowded workplace can be a major source of stress.
When we returned, the party was in full swing and the dance floor was crowded.
It was crowded with youths and young men who were singing songs and ever and again barking out college yells. Chapter 3
A motley collection of ornaments jostled for space on the crowded shelf.
However, the Las Vegas Four Seasons is right there on The Strip, right next to the Luxor, which kind of implicates it as one of those Vegas hotels - lobbies clanging with slot machines and crowded with wandering tourists clad in Reeboks, Dockers shorts, hooded sweatshirts tied around their waists and clear plastic visors embellished with flamingoes. Elvis Didn't Sing at the Wedding - Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas
The bomb went off in a crowded street.
The moon was shining enough to give a ghostly luminosity to the buildings that crowded both sides of the narrow street.
It was crowded and noisy, but fortunately, Baron Kaspar got a few porters to carry our luggage and surround us, keeping us isolated from everyone else.
Talk Of The Town: If you're at a loose end in Hargeisa after dipping into the cacophonous effervescence of markets crowded with donkey carts amid the amplified calls of the muezzin, you could do worse than go to the Imperial Hotel, just beyond the walled presidential palace. Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS)
Building codes are routinely ignored to produce towering, fragile, overcrowded structures. Times, Sunday Times
The horsemen rode overland as the infantrymen and artillerists crowded onto railroad cars. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
He jumped on the crowded bus.
In these crumbling, crowded streets outside the Old City, which UNESCO lists as a World Heritage site, artisans and merchants make and sell anything from farm tools to copper ornaments, brassware and carpets, just as in generations past. Archive 2007-06-01
All that will ensure is that the 401 will be as crowded as ever this afternoon between Toronto and Windsor. July 2006
On February 8, 2001, a powerful remote-controlled car bomb went off in the crowded Beit Yisrael area of Jerusalem.
He bowed as well as he could in the crowded atmosphere and left her, standing stock-still in surprise.
Most people in this group lived in crowded flats in high-rise buildings to save more money to send home. Times, Sunday Times
The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
The train was crowded, but I scraped in just before the door closed.
Everything dowly became more heated, crowded, excited. You Live Once
For a short time, traffic crowded the interstates, as displaced residents flowed back into their neighborhoods to resume work interrupted by Hurricane Rita.
We circle back down to our boat, passing through crowded Turkish cemeteries.
If we've come to the point where the banterers are having to explain and apologise for their jokes, then presumably the joy of the thing – the roaring of rape humour across a crowded internet, that beery, leery, Friday-night amour – has been lost? The joke's on them
stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things. Roughing It
I accidentally dropped a loaded tray crowded with entrées of pork tenderloin and pasta Alfredo.
People crowded round to get a better view.
They crowded round the spokesperson, eager for any news.
You are trapesing aimlessly through the the already too crowded streets.
But teachers demanded more cash and said timetables were already overcrowded. The Sun
They've stood in long lines to get on commuter trains, they have crowded on to ferries, they've carpooled with strangers.
I am not sure if I will be able to cope with overcrowded trains and a big bag of shopping.
It was crowded, and I had to maneuver around many people, but finally she led us into an empty corridor.
Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
After a number of years it may become necessary to lift crowded plantings of bulbs in order to spread them out and revitalize the soil.
Suddenly the wooded hillsides are ribbed with vines and the cobbled quays of Jarnac and Cognac crowded with the merchant warehouses of great cognac-makers like Courvoisier, Hine, Martell and Otard.
Its curiously and irregularly pinnate fronds are borne on slender stalks, terete toward the base, and covered with reddish brown, downy scales, instead of being produced loosely, as in most other Nephrolepises; these are densily crowded, and the outcome of closely clustered crowns. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
This will allow farmers to shift animals from rented grazing land to pasture nearer home to supervise lambing or calving or turn out animals onto summer pasture from overcrowded steadings.
Many primary schools are already overcrowded. Times, Sunday Times
The CAB did not regulate rates, but it controlled entry into city pairs and used that control to limit entry to the point that flights were frequent and uncrowded .
Maybe you vividly remember watching the occasion unfold in monochrome as you crowded round a black and white TV with family and friends.
The city was overcrowded with tall skyscrapers and noisy vehicles of all sorts.
And if you are in the slow lane and too fast then again that is your own fault and you should move up a lane, dependent on how crowded other lanes are.
Anolis carolinensis, green anole, by Al Denelsbeck — Not endangered or even threatened at this point, they nevertheless are getting crowded out in Florida by the introduced and more aggressive brown anole. Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb
You were right about the hotel being too crowded.
In a crowded world the odds had been rigged in favour of turtles. Times, Sunday Times
I had a sandwich in a crowded City pub, and then went to the bank to collect Miss Macdonald's letter.
Many of the buyers, particularly at the top end of the market, have fled the overcrowded south-east of England, enticed north by lower prices and a better quality of life.
All are afflicted with a rise in overcrowded classrooms, teacher layoffs, and the other crises that accompany financial cutbacks.
Lovely uncrowded beaches are about 15 minutes away by car. Times, Sunday Times
Should you be tired of the crowded roads and endless noises, you might want to have a glimpse of the primary forest with me.
Some, however, repeat it as they pass through any crowded area of the kitchen, rhythmically announcing each step— “QUEmoQUEmoQUEmo”—so that the word becomes a mantra against accidental bumping and other calamities. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
The small courtyard is also crowded with anxious relatives and concerned neighbours.
In the middle the open water of the fairway is crowded with pinnaces, jolly-boats, cutters, and pleasure steamers.
The explosion sent shrapnel flying through the sides of cars on the crowded highway.
Coming too soon to an overcrowded, overstrained and overleveraged metropolis near you. TV review: Dispatches – Olympic Tickets for Sale; Storyville – If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
They reported that the area is overcrowded with vendors, and is untidy and chaotic.
They might have suffered from lack of air in the crowded trucks and suffocated,’ the doctor said.
The bar was crowded with City types in suits.
The ash tray was getting crowded when I decided there was no percentage in doing any more worrying for a while.
In a dangerous combat situation, or even a crowded seaway, this can provide a huge advantage.
Planning systems are more rigorous and the country is more crowded in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times
The train was crowded to its full capacity.
The centre was crowded and some say it was about ten thousand strong. Times, Sunday Times
About 75 spectators crowded the courtroom of U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III for the start of the nonjury trial. Dover News carnival. - The Panda's Thumb
These faraway lands offer each of us the chance to escape our safe, constrained and overcrowded homeland to better define ourselves on our own terms. Times, Sunday Times
He says crowded modern life causes noise to rise in our society - and constantly adjusting to this level of noise can lead to a medical condition.
The policy agenda is so crowded that April seems a long way away. Times, Sunday Times
To begin with, the map was two miles to the inch, and was not contoured -- merely hachured -- which is no earthly use where the peaks are crowded up within a few hundred yards of each other, so that three peaks in line appear on the map as one ridge, though there may be dips of 500 feet between them, and looking at it the other way, it is very hard to believe that a place which it takes you one and a half hours to reach walking is less than a mile on the map. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
Everything would then be crowded together in a state of infinite density: the end of the universe.
Once crowded in here, the creatures were prisoned, each in a separate pen, by gates that shut, leaving them no room to turn around; and while they stood bellowing and plunging, over the top of the pen there leaned one of the "knockers," armed with a sledge hammer, and watching for a chance to deal a blow. The Jungle
The streets of Yuma and Somerton are crowded with the automobiles of farmers, enriched by thousands of acres of splendid long-staple cotton, alfalfa, corn, and feterita. Community Civics and Rural Life
Never before has a summit had such a crowded agenda.
Two extra assistants had been engaged for the following afternoon, and their services were in brisk demand; the shop was crowded. Literature
Brown envisions a vast improvement to the shelter, which she described as crowded and substandard. JSOnline.com
And he avoided noisy and crowded at all costs… which meant he also avoided places like malls.
Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
Between nursing intervals, the mother leaves the pup in the crowded rookery as she searches for food in the ocean.
The other half of the garage was crowded with lawnmowers, weed-whackers, tools, and excessive amounts of junk.
Shoppers crowded into downtown stores, snapping up once - rationed consumer goods.
It means skiers will no longer have to catch an often overcrowded bus to explore the area 's great terrain. Times, Sunday Times
The wind being abeam, was what had saved the men crowded aft. THE SEED OF McCOY
Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets.
A proposal to sell a former Montgomery County high school to the private school that rents it has raised concern among some elected officials, who say the county should not be selling school buildings when enrollment is growing and many classrooms are overcrowded. Montgomery officials question sale of high school property to private academy
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
Chen gave her a nod of recognition across the crowded room.
I caused bottlenecks in front of crowded Métro barriers, frantically scrabbling through my satchel for that sad little bag containing my carnet of tickets.
The parade was crowded with nobility and gentry, and I had to pull past them in this ridiculous fashion. Three Men in a Boat
At the press of a button, the bike lets out beeps and the lights start flashing, making it easy for you to locate it in a crowded parking lot.
In the rebel areas away from the front line residents reported chaotic scenes, with new arrivals being squeezed into already overcrowded homes. Times, Sunday Times
The conditions they lived in were atrocious: overcrowded lodging houses, cellars, and garrets, shanty towns in the insalubrious districts beyond the town walls.
Unobserved, he took the vacant upper berth of a crowded compartment and overheard the loud conversation of a group of British officers.
By ten o'clock the bar was crowded.
The old church of Nottingham was already crowded to excess.
Lift and divide overcrowded clumps of perennials, including campanulas, daylilies, hostas, peonies, sedums, and Shasta daisies.
Both had poor ratings in a crowded marketplace, with almost two dozen syndicated talk shows scrapping for viewers every day.
Many tournament organisers miscalculate entry levels with the result that adjacent areas are crowded together and the competitors' safety is imperilled.
In December he had sat stunned at a hastily organised and crowded press conference at Heathrow airport.
The people crowded round the scene of the accident.
The Hot is self-explanatory, given that the most plausible explanation for the burkini was the Australian sun; Flat, because the speed of the web ensures an audience of millions, even billions, within hours for the smallest detail of someone's everyday life, and Crowded, because for a celebrity, nowhere is safe from the long reach of a paparazzi zoom lens. Nigella Lawson and the great burkini cover-up
They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was now in, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. Nineteen Eighty-four
In the new cemeteries, which came into existence to relieve overcrowded churchyards, gatehouses were often provided for watchmen.
In the backstage area, just about everyone except the competitors has crowded around clipboards full of paper.
The public bar was crowded.
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have crowded in Cairo's Tahrir ((Liberation)) Square, chanting and waving flags as they rally for President Hosni Mubarak's immediate resignation.
They crowded around the table to get their food.
We have learned in Section 144 that the mucous lining of the small intestines is crowded with millions of little appendages called villi, meaning "tufts of hair. A Practical Physiology
Summer is the second season in a year. It is between spring and autumn. The sun of summer is the hottest; the water of summer is the warmest; the places of interests in summer are the most crowded throughout the world.
Many Army barracks are overcrowded and lacking in modern amenities, such as air conditioning.
Rather than refer to her speech at the previous day's banquet, whether to endorse or disavow such colorful phrases as "the Pentagon, a pentacle crowded with the demons of nuclear madness," or "the CIA-the Children Immolation Agency," he made an unspeech of it and simply called her a modern Joan of Arc. That St. Joan took arms in the cause of liberation became an unfact. The Boat of a Million Years
She threaded her way through the crowded market place.
Crowded around tables the size of Frisbees, people pose in a pageant of pretension.
He drove slowly. The avenue was crowded with people.
An overcrowded workplace can be a major source of stress.
Countries like Sudan are crowded out of the sugar market in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The last thing he remembered was gasping with pain when someone sprayed an aerosol mist in his face as he left a crowded elevator.
They could hear a loud babble of voices coming from the crowded bar.
It was grossly overcrowded and lacking in elementary safety measures and basic facilities.
A moderately crowded stellar field in the cluster 47 Tuc is observed with the ACS (at the cluster core) and WFC3 (6 arcmin West of the cluster core) using the full suite of broad and narrow band imaging filters. SpaceRef Top Stories
Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals. The Beloved Woman
It proved to be the lowest kind of music-ball down in the Loop district what they call burlesque nowadays-with sawdust on the floor, a great bar down one side of the hall doing a roaring trade, pit and gallery crowded with raucous toughs and their flash tarts, an atmosphere blue with smoke and a programme to match. Isabelle
The Tunisians are friendly, the beaches soft, sandy and uncrowded, a wide variety of sports and watersports are freely available and the food is good.
He says that we are not yet seeing the kind of rage which accompanies the surfing season in Australia, where crowded surf can lead to ugly scenes.

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