CROWD in a Sentence

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364 example sentences for CROWD, such as:
1. Two is company, but three's a crowd.
2. The secret was spread among the crowd.
3. A whole crowd of us are going to the ball.
4. I saw a few familiar faces among the crowd.
5. The girl quickly disappeared among the crowd.
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 Meanings and Examples of CROWD
crowd
 n.  an informal body of friends
 v.  fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No crowd of house-serfs ran out on to the steps to meet the gentlemen; a little girl of twelve years old made her appearance alone.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  As often happens, the horses of a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole crowd had to wait.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
3  "And there," he pointed to a sutler's tent, "they crowd in and sit."
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
4  Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were unwounded.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
5  In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagration rushed shouting after the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
6  The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and retreated as a disorderly crowd.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
7  Not only would it have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to be carried back with it oneself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
8  Higher up stood some Russian infantry, neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the fleeing crowd.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
9  The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few steps, and again stopped.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
10  Dolokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the slippery ice that covered the millpool.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
11  The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even under his weight alone.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
12  Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that everyone ducked.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
13  Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered the dam, the pond, and the bank.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
14  Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
15  The wagons escorted by the hussars drew up to the picket ropes and a crowd of hussars surrounded them.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
2  According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
3  All the crowd cheered and threw their hats up in the air.
4  A large crowd had assembled outside the American embassy.
5  The secret was spread among the crowd.
6  I saw a few familiar faces among the crowd.
7  The girl quickly disappeared among the crowd.
8  The crowd continued to argue heatedly about the best way to tackle the problem.
9  He works the crowd so long that the bodyguards hired by his attorney roll their eyes in exhaustion.
10  She clasped her bag tightly as she walked through the crowd.
11  A whole crowd of us are going to the ball.
12  Hundreds of troop reinforcements arrived and pushed back the crowd.
13  They hyped up the crowd with TV to sell their political policy.
14  Two is company, but three's a crowd.
15  The barriers gave way under the pressure of the crowd.