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.
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
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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.
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.
3 "And there," he pointed to a sutler's tent, "they crowd in and sit."
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.
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.
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.
7 Not only would it have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to be carried back with it oneself.
8 Higher up stood some Russian infantry, neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the fleeing crowd.
9 The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few steps, and again stopped.
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.
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.
12 Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that everyone ducked.
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.
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.
15 The wagons escorted by the hussars drew up to the picket ropes and a crowd of hussars surrounded them.
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.