Vocabulary Word
Word: throng
Definition: crowd (of people or things); V.
Definition: crowd (of people or things); V.
Sentences Containing 'throng'
Looked out upon a throng of men and women: not enough in number, or near enough, to fill the courtyard: not more than forty or fifty in all.
A moment afterwards, and a throng of people came pouring round the corner by the prison wall, in the midst of whom was the wood sawyer hand in hand with The Vengeance.
The two stand in the fast thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone.
The gate of the hotel had been closed to screen them from sight, but they were forced, when the door was open, to pass through a throng of curious glances and whispering voices.
Each stroke of the oar seemed to awaken a new throng of ideas, which sprang up with the flying spray of the sea.
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