How To Use Throng In A Sentence

All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
How we had found each other in this throng of 250,000 people was inexplicable. Times, Sunday Times
The singing, which was acapella, sounded as though a throng of angels in heaven had joined us. The Art of Frederick Morgan: Examples of 19th Century Modest, Feminine Dress
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
The rain was falling heavily when the theatres let out, and the brilliant throng which poured from the places of amusement was hard put to find cabs. CARRYING THE BANNER

We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
If that was not enough, nobles of both countries thronged the hall.
Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
Scores of wannabees thronged to the auditions for the York Theatre Royal pantomime, Babes In The Wood.
The throng surrounding them shouted affirming hallelujahs and amens, flapping and singing, rattling their tambourines and bleating their horns.
There were about a hundred souls assembled, and Jeffrey's seasoned eye assayed the political temper of the throng.
Nevertheless, the average dogshow is thronged with spectators. Bruce
Then with demonic force he hurled it into the throng below. Somewhere East of Life
The circle of dancing angels recalls the cherub throng of Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation
I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
At a wedding, the assembled throng is there to bear witness to two people's choice to join their lives together. Times, Sunday Times
If, as promised, they throng through the streets of London when the ban comes into force in February, any civil disobedience will only harden the attitudes of the liberal townies whose routines they will be disrupting.
He had a little dread of the magnitude and corners of this dwelling that was to be his in the future, and of the old men who sat in it all day saying nothing, but it was strange indeed (thought he) if with Miss Mary within, and the sunshine and the throng and the children playing in the syver sand without, he should not find life more full and pleasant than it had been in the glen. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
The light was so gentle over the river, and the thronging crowds at the waterfront were so colourful.
Mrs. Honoria leaned her two round arms on the mezzanine rail, and looked long and earnestly down upon the caucussing lobby throng. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
The crowds thronged into the mall.
He is tossing out T-shirts, hats, aprons, and sweatbands to throngs of young people.
A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of Burlesques
A record crowd thronged the streets of Castlecomer on the first day of the new millennium.
Delighted locals thronged the streets and waved flags to honour the men and women. The Sun
So many youngsters thronged the street in their party finery. The Sun
He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
As each leader announced a portion of the sentence, loud murmurs of approval rose from the throng. Christianity Today
I was just about brushing my teeth in Fajuyi Hall, OAU, when guys in different halls began to shout all over the place. everyone tuned up their radios and the whole campus went gaga ... there was an unarranged parade on the streets, students who hadnt had their bath thronged everywhere waving makeshift flags of victory, beating drums and dancing all over the place ... JUNE 8 AND THE DEATH OF ABACHA
She turned when she heard the throng of girls scream and giggle and was almost blinded by camera flashes.
The great mobs which had thronged the streets during the night had vanished. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Gradually it dawned on Bob that this man was acting in the capacity of "barker" -- that with quite admirable perspicacity and accuracy, he was engaged in selecting from the countless throngs the few possible purchasers for Lucky Lands. The Rules of the Game
When it was time to file out the side-door into the courtway, she would linger at prayers, then slip out another door, and unseen glide up Chartres Street to Canal, and once there, mingle in the throng that filled the wide thoroughfare. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Not for him the public walkabouts among adoring throngs that marked Bill Clinton's jovial foreign jaunts.
Pairs of people stood in the cubicles that formed the con - voluted perimeter of the hall, and a throng milled in the center, making contacts. Split Infinity
Soon afterwards, the police melted away and people thronged the streets. Times, Sunday Times
There was the glass, cone shaped mountain that appeared out of nowhere, after the throng had finished stomping me.
The crowd that thronged the boundaries reflected that. Times, Sunday Times
On this street was a throng of trucks and wagons lading and unlading; bales and boxes rose and sank by pulleys overhead; the footway was a labyrinth of packages of every shape and size: there was no flagging of the pitiless energy that moved all forward, no sign of how heavy a weight lay on it, save in the reeking faces of its helpless instruments. Complete March Family Trilogy
It turned out instead that the throng had assembled to praise, not to bury him. The Passion of Michel Foucault
The atmosphere was convivial and the crowds thronged accordingly.
Oddities apart, visitors to the island are currently enjoying the annual spring spectacles of throngs of nesting seabirds and carpets of bluebells.
Amid all the tumult and clamour of the teeming crowds who throng the premises, the hall stands dignified in its majestic splendour.
Trade grew still brisker as more canoes came alongside and black men and women thronged the deck. CHAPTER XI
It does not rise before us in detached and disconnected proportions, like that of spiritual loveliness, but in crowds, and in solitude, and in all the throngful varieties of thought and feeling and action, the symmetrical whole, the beautiful perfection comes up in the vision of memory, and stands, like Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
Colourful multitudes thronged the traffic-congested streets, poring over programmes, posters and booking kits.
I knelt down and crawled at great speed through the legs of the assembled throng. Times, Sunday Times
A large number of people visiting the exhibition grounds thronged the Kalavedika where they were feasted to a cultural bonanza.
These liberal ladies want to have the cheers and throngs of full throated support that Sarah has, and they hate the fact that Sarah is an attractive Republican woman. THE TRUTH - LIBERAL WOMEN ARE JEALOUS OF SARAH PALIN
And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children. An American Tragedy
But it could not be so gloomy in the kind sunlight as it was when lashed by the savage storm which we had seen it cowering under before; and at the station we lost all feeling of friendlessness in the welcome of the thronging guides and hotel touters. Familiar Spanish Travels
The result is an evening packed with song and dance, recitation and good old fashioned chit-chat which draws a faithful throng, despite the weather and in spite of rapidly developing world events.
Addressing the throngs of media gathered outside the courthouse, Crown spokesman Geoff Gaul said there was nothing unusual about the proceedings.
The vista beyond was dotted with leafless trees and throngs of firs and pine.
The place was thronged with people, all quietly enjoying the moment.
We don't find Achilles any the less interesting because we doubt the ability of any degenerate modern to calmly destroy such outnumbering hosts of his fellow beings, and send such a throng of warrior souls to hades without scath or scar to his invulnerable self. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The catwalks thronged with beautifully crafted, richly textured clothes that begged to be stroked, touched and admired. Times, Sunday Times
Dressed in town clothes and wraparound shades, they stand out from the throng of tribal dress and ochre bodies.
The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
Then, in what amounts to a stunning yet unheralded philosophical inversion, throngs of ecclesiastics and scholars began to declare that it was the laws of physics themselves that served as proof of the wisdom and power of God.
The throng of people was excited, jeering and mocking, jostling the two who held on to the man at the centre of it all.
The Firvulag throng was now almost out of control, straining close to the platform on their side of the field and making an uproar of derisive twitters, growls, and a deep bourdon drone of humming that now reached a crescendo of maddening whole-tone intervals. The Golden Torc
I feel so left out when, gallivanting about town, I see the happy throngs of customers queuing for lattes and mocha cappuccinos.
The throng behind the radio announcer is worth studying for the variety of action portrayed, and for its pattern of beautiful linework. Boing Boing
On the moor was a throng of phantoms flitting on Petru's right and left hand, before and behind him. Roumanian Fairy Tales
There was a throng, a constant coming and going; calls interchanged, orders given and executed with shouts; the rattle of blocks, the flinging about of coils of rope. Almayer's Folly
A breathtaking display of flowers in their varied forms and colours was a delightful treat for the visitors who thronged the YWCA grounds throughout the day.
Whenever the pope visits a foreign country, multitudes throng the site for hours, even days, before he arrives.
After brunch in one of the many small cafes selling sweet potato snacks, dried donut cakes and biscuits, we make our way over the bridge, past the llama rides and into the throng of people waiting for the next funicular.
But the real indication that his priorities are different from the throng around us is not the lack of festive shopping bags but a certain ethereal quality. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe it is churlish to cling to the belief that really, as in horse racing, the best seasons see thoroughbred quality separate itself from the throng. Times, Sunday Times
Looking at the throng of people waiting to enter the building, Gil was glad that Laurie had instructed him to go to the back door where an usher would escort them to their seats instead of their having to stand in the long line.
A throng of cheering fans gathered outside for hours just to catch a glimpse of their hero and 60 guests stayed at the hotel overnight to see him.
Our densely-crowded slums, the far too large percentage of unemployed, the gigantic revenues which are expended by all classes of society in intoxicating drink, the huge crowds which throng to the places of public amusement to watch our matches, simply because they have something on the event -- I say these are not satisfactory features in connection with British social life today. Modern British Liberalism and the Empire
The United defence thronged into the middle for some reason, allowed Wright to send a ball back to Mitchell who was by this time trotting, unaccompanied, into the box.
The long hallway he entered thronged with people in various uniforms -- housekeepers and bellmen, waitresses and housemen, bartenders and banquet waiters. Delta Search
It was market day and the stalls stood in rows with local people squeezing together in throngs, full of happiness.
A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.
Beyond the lights, Cameron got the impression of audience members thronging the exits, trying to get out of the concert hall.
Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.
The footpath was a throng of people jostling for space, drifting onto the road, cars honking. The Legacy
They thronged to his office so as to kiss his hand and receive blessings before returning to their chanting.
Women with oiled and sheeny hair, combs thrust through their buns and intricate embroidered aprons tied round their waists, thronged the riverside bazaar.
When the celebrations started, all ages and sections of society joined in, with blue-rinse pensioners thronging alongside fresh-faced enthusiasts and even Orthodox priests.
Rosses Point was overflowing on Friday night last as supporters of St. Valentine thronged to the local restaurants, inns and hostelries to celebrate February 14.
I feel so left out when, gallivanting about town, I see the happy throngs of customers queuing for lattes and mocha cappuccinos.
He preached to these throngs of people twice daily, urging them to give up their licentious and unjust ways. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
One separates from the throng hovers awhile on the edge shudders, hesitates, realizes it is alone, a grace note, composes a radical new choreography darts and dives to its own dance that complements, defies and defines solo and ensemble, both we and me. Contretemps - French Word-A-Day
These benighted souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their ‘sanity’ appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac revelers sweeps past them p. World Wide Mind
He is enthused by the huge crowds thronging the place on the first day of the festival and fervently hopes that the flow would continue at the same pace.
Ed Reed picked off Carson Palmer as well as ran 52 yards with a second-quarter interception for a touchdown, promulgation a throng in to a frenzy with a initial points of a day. Archive 2009-11-01
As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him. Audrey
The final words before curtain-up were left to Matthew who told the gathered throng: ‘It is a great honour to be at this wonderful old theatre and for my group of dancers to be the first to perform here.’
Thousands still thronged to his house to listen to him speak before he flew off to Munich, Germany.
I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism. Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
York's historic streets received a pounding as throngs of sightseers packed into the city's snickleways and parks to enjoy the holiday atmosphere.
We entered the throng, found the small reception area and were soon climbing slightly creaky stairs to our room. Times, Sunday Times
Nearing 3pm, the crowds thronged to the trackside and filled the huge grandstands. Times, Sunday Times
Every now and again a fresh trainload comes out of the station to swell the throng. Times, Sunday Times
The students thronged forward as the exam results were announced.
He had his throng of child beggars with him, and he was still in his combat fatigues.
The shopping malls are thronging, but the docks are silent. Times, Sunday Times
Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
Three hours before game time, a throng of reporters packed the space as if it were backstage at a Springsteen concert.
On a muggy Thursday evening, the dimly lit downstairs bar was heaving with a restless, reckless kinetic energy; the boozed-up, spirit-slicked office throng collaborating on a prescription for the morning-after pill. Restaurant review: Platform
She slipped the cell back in her pocket and stepped off the sidewalk, leaving the throngs of down- and wool-bundled workers on Grant Street to begin her descent. Aching for Always
Two coralline pillars shoulder their way up from the deep and barge through throngs of fish to emerge swathed in surf, snarling in the face of the currents that dominate this coast.
We are not tired of the endless processions of cheerful, chattering gossipers that throng these courts and streets all day long, either; nor of the coarse-robed monks; nor of the "Asti" wines, which that old doctor The Innocents Abroad
Then he looked inquiringly at Loring, and every neck in the thronged apartment, the biggest room at headquarters, was "craned" as A Wounded Name
A'senti created a very large ball of electricity and sent it over to a throng of guards, laughing as they were knocked down unconscious like bowling pins.
But for the illiterates and even many literates, who throng the Collectorate seeking assistance, their services are indispensable.
These throngs of people standing in high-profile vigils could disperse and go individually to thousands of bedsides and visit those who suffer in isolation.
They join a growing throng. The Sun
Rock iv Cashel, I'll l'arn yez to insult th 'heav'nly throng! Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters
And, as far off as they could perceive him, they ran thronging upon the back of one another in all haste towards him, to unload him of his money, and untruss his portmantles. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It also includes hints and tips to help you train your eye to search out the special pieces from among the throng.
On Monday, more than 50 beauticians thronged the Purani Haveli to get a dekko of Zardozi tattoo designing and a demo of trendy haircuts.
Three-quarters of party-goers who throng nightclubs on a regular basis experience ringing in their ears or dullness of hearing afterwards.
A throng of shoppers pushed against one another to the display tables of the department store.
There the narrow space allotted to spectators was thronged with hot faces under beavers, mutches, and sun-bonnets.
Soon afterwards, the police melted away and people thronged the streets. Times, Sunday Times
He made his way slowly through the throng.
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 The Winning of Barbara Worth
Last Saturday night the Riverbank Arts Centre was thronged with talent and supporters for the Kildare Youth Theatre Talent Competition.
The result is an evening packed with song and dance, recitation and good old fashioned chit-chat which draws a faithful throng, despite the weather and in spite of rapidly developing world events.
One could not walk the sidewalks casually; one pushed one's way, or sidewinded, through throngs of well-dressed gentlemen and ladies and loud-mouthed costumed rowdies.
As each leader announced a portion of the sentence, loud murmurs of approval rose from the throng. Christianity Today
The throng at her thanksgiving service in Ely Cathedral spoke volumes about her influence and the love that she inspired. Times, Sunday Times
The success of these clubs is due to the extraordinary commitment of effort, energy, time and generosity which a throng of coaches and organizers give willingly and freely.
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. The Life of George Borrow
The queens majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her. Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5
Adequate and free parking space is another big boon for shoppers who throng these stores.
Virginian deer, [4] and of the prongbuck "antelope" [5] thronged the grassy flats, and elk browsed on the foliage of the thickets along the river banks. Pioneers in Canada
Taken home by car, he was transferred to an open tourer at the outskirts of Newry, the streets thronged by cheering fans, eager to shake the hero's hand and gain his autograph.
Cattail-thronged marshes here host canvasbacks, redheads, and swans, along with buffleheads, common golden-eyes, teals, and even some bald and golden eagles.
A throng of shoppers pushed against one another to the display tables of the department store.
I saw weapons brandished as the whooping and yelling grew louder; here was Spotted Tail, his huge buckskinned figure thrusting through the throng as he shouted to Young-Man-Afraid; now he was under the canopy, addressing Mills. Isabelle
After a criminal's condemnation, it was the custom for a victim to be scourged with the flagellum, a whip with leather throngs.
In any event, the evidence is not consistent with the view that it is only male chauvinists who are thronging to church over the objections of their more liberated spouses. American Grace
She came as they always seemed to do, lovely and composed and unconcerned by the people who thronged about her stallion.
After thanking the crowd for their immense support over the years, the group kicked into their set as a sweaty throng of spectators surged forward and a small circle pit opened up.
Great crowds thronged the town over the weekend including several visitors.
Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. Nevermore
Paxton's fairy palace of glass and iron, erected in Hyde Park, and canopying in its glittering spaces the untouched, majestic elms of that national pleasure-ground as well as the varied treasures of industrial and artistic achievement brought from every quarter of the globe, divided the charmed astonishment of foreign spectators with the absolute orderliness of the myriads who thronged it and crowded all its approaches on the great opening day. Great Britain and Her Queen
She was rattling on without affording me the slightest opportunity to slip in a word explanatory, when her glance chanced to fall upon some one who was approaching us through the throng. My Lady of the North
A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors.
According to reports, the edgy animal had slunk away into the darkness of the power outage, spreading panic among the thronging crowds.
We stood for some moments contemplating the group before us, and then, following the steps of an old, withered crone, who, with a cracked cup in her hand, was pushing her way through the throng, we found ourselves in that dreary pandaemonium, at once the origin and the refuge of humble vices -- a Gin-shop. Pelham — Complete
We circled around and found a small reef covered with redbait, mussels, and sea urchins, and thronging with fish. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Far up above the noisy throng an ospray sailed on the blue expanse of the sky, and quick as thought swooped down upon a halibut which had ventured to take a peep at the rising sun. Tales From Two Hemispheres
His work may some day become the fad of the mob, but not until his heart's blood had been exhausted; not until the pathfinder has ceased to be, and a throng of an idealless and visionless mob has done to death the heritage of the master. Anarchism and Other Essays
The annual throng of whitebaiters converging on Lake Ferry has been subject to an unseasonal interruption to the harvest just as catches were beginning to grow.
To the forefaid inconveniences may come alfo, throng the faid flatute, this abufe following: that is to wete, if there be a mightier or a richer man, that do fue a porer man in the faid Courts; the richer man maye the fooner, by reafon that there be fo fewe Pro6lors, retain the mooft parte and bed lemed of theym. Memorial of the Most reverend father in God Thomas Cranmer,sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury : Wherein the history of the church, and reformation of it, during the primacy of the said archbishop, are greatly illustrated; and many singular matters rel
He sees in the predicament of weekend fathers patrolling ‘the Olmsted bosks of Central Park, / Its children-thronged resorts, / Pain-tainted ground’ that of lost souls in a circle of a Dantesque hell.
The girl weaved through the throng of people to stumble into the nearest tent.
Operations in the Plastic Surgery Section of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital are in full swing and the waiting room is thronged with young people waiting for cosmetic surgery.
But the real indication that his priorities are different from the throng around us is not the lack of festive shopping bags but a certain ethereal quality. Times, Sunday Times
In the diversified throng were shawled crones, young fathers with niños perched atop their shoulders, and beautiful brown women beamingly holding the hands of other children, each dressed in his best. Las Posadas, 2001
Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
What was dignified became chaotic as the crowds thronged towards them, trying to catch a glimpse and take photographs on phones and cameras. Times, Sunday Times
On our long drive from the border to Irbil, we passed throngs of families moving in the opposite direction: they were fleeing to the brilliant virescent cliffs of the Hasarost Mountains northeast of the city, where, they believed, they would be safer in case Iraqi soldiers encamped on the west bank of the Great Zab River were to launch a chemical strike against Irbil. Peace Meals
While gentlemen of the aristocracy lounged at the National Theatre, drunken throngs hooted at busty showgirls in the latest burlesque revues.
There were only sporadic moments of virtuosity from Pelé, but enough of them draw gasps of admiration from the starstruck throng. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever pedestrian space was left would be jammed with a motley, jostling throng of buyers.
The streets thronged with people, but no one looked on his face and ran from him. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
The city's Arndale Centre was bustling throughout the evening as shoppers thronged the complex.
Meanwhile, York city centre remained busy over the holiday weekend with crowds thronging the streets and pubs, and street entertainers drawing crowds.
‘The area is thronged with people during the day but because of fears about their safety at night, they disappear,’ said one.
O’er heapy shields, and o’er the prostrate throng, The Iliad of Homer
Delighted locals thronged the streets and waved flags to honour the men and women. The Sun
Following a fine and warm weekend and with the promise of more sunshine to come, hundreds of people thronged York Railway Station.
How we had found each other in this throng of 250,000 people was inexplicable. Times, Sunday Times
All three places were thronged with hearers. Christianity Today
The throng enjoyed a huge party thrown by the host committee at the city's aquarium following Media Day.
Keeping well back in the throng, he followed McKnight and a whole band of people out into the mezza - nine and down the wide, sweeping metal staircase into the lobby. Second Skin
No longer are its streets thronged with bare-knuckled flyweights, the long-term unemployed huddling for warmth around braziers, or urchin children.
The roads were thronged with petty chapmen, with their news-sheets, tracts, almanacs, cautionary tales, pamphlets full of homespun wisdom; pedlars with trinkets of all sorts; and travelling entertainers.
I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas
Fortunately the church door was close at hand, but before he entered he was aware that the turncock had joined the throng with three bright instruments over his shoulder, as if his services were likely to be wanted toward the end. Witness to the Deed
The department store was thronged with people.
As it happened, Sen. Joe Lieberman was also at the airport, surrounded by a throng from the national press corps. A Roaring Literary Lion
The band launches in to their first song and the crowd is a throng of jumping bodies.
What was dignified became chaotic as the crowds thronged towards them, trying to catch a glimpse and take photographs on phones and cameras. Times, Sunday Times
Crowds thronged the main square of the city.
Such thronging to the wicket, and such churlish answers, and such bare beef-bones, such a shouldering at the buttery-hatch and cellarage, and nought to be gained beyond small insufficient single ale, or at best with a single straike of malt to counterbalance a double allowance of water — “By the mass, though, my young friend,” said he, while he saw the food disappearing fast under The Abbot
Outside the throng was a carriage, stopp'd for a minute by this tumult, and a servant at the horses 'heads. The Splendid Spur
The usual caparison of the Shoshone horse is a halter and saddle. the 1st. consists either of a round plated or twisted cord of six or seven strands of buffaloe's hair, or a throng of raw hide made pliant by pounding and rubing. these cords of bufaloe's hair are about the size of a man's finger and remarkably strong. this is the kind of halter which is prefered Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
I shelved the oddity, smiled, located Sophie Brandau in the glittering throng, whispered to Tye to have somebody spill a little vino rosso on the lovely Sophie’s dress, caught up a silver tray — gadrooned, my favourite style — and briskly went to start my compulsory courting. The Great California Game
Thousands more thronged to the college where Mahendra's body was laid, shrouded in a red flag.
Skaters whizzed by in the rink behind them, but nobody moved to put on a pair of four-wheelers and join the throng.
The automatic door slid back with a wheezy sigh then I walked into the thronged bar. RESCUING ROSE
But, she was the star attraction of the day with students thronging to have a word with her.
What a throng of volumes, what a flight of tales, novels of all sorts, droll, philosophic, and theosophic. Balzac
The hall was packed, and the assembled throng were clapping along to a drum and dance spectacular on stage. Times, Sunday Times
With his wife, he created an atoll of comfortableness amidst the surging throngs and I always felt a tug towards them.
Some of the tradespeople signalised the event by a display of flags, and thousands of people thronged the streets, many coming in from distant places to witness the opening proceedings.
Pushing his way hurriedly through the surging throngs, he was amused to hear how the by-election was sharpening schoolboy wit. POLITICAL SUICIDE

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