THRONG in a Sentence
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125 example sentences for THRONG, such as:
1. An official pushed through the throng.
2. A throng of shoppers jammed the aisles.
3. A patient throng was waiting in silence.
4. A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.
5. The department store was thronged with people.
2. A throng of shoppers jammed the aisles.
3. A patient throng was waiting in silence.
4. A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.
5. The department store was thronged with people.
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Meanings and Examples of THRONG
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throng
v. press tightly together or cram
n. a large gathering of people
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1 But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
2 Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
3 In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
4 Somehow Melanie made her way to the center of the excited throng and somehow made her usually soft voice heard above the tumult.
5 He led her through the throng of returning holiday-makers, past sallow-faced girls in preposterous hats, and flat-chested women struggling with paper bundles and palm-leaf fans.
6 The throng in the room had increased, and she felt a desire for space and fresh air.
7 The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show.
8 The seated throng, filling the immense room without undue crowding, presented a surface of rich tissues and jewelled shoulders in harmony with the festooned and gilded walls, and the flushed splendours of the Venetian ceiling.
9 He took another cross street, and without breasting the throng on the Promenade, made his way to the fashionable club which overlooks that thoroughfare.
10 It was now past midnight, and the throng on the stands was dispersing, while the long trails of red-lit boats scattered and faded beneath a sky repossessed by the tranquil splendour of the moon.
11 The rooms were packed with the gazing throng which, in the afternoon hours, trickles heavily between the tables, like the Sunday crowd in a lion-house.
12 This was unfortunate, for already there was a throng before the door.
13 Seeing the throng, Marija abandoned precipitately the debate concerning the ancestors of her coachman, and, springing from the moving carriage, plunged in and proceeded to clear a way to the hall.
14 So in a frenzy of despair Marija began to claw her way toward the doors of this building, through a throng of men, women, and children, all as excited as herself.
15 He was no longer the finest-looking man in the throng, and the bosses no longer made for him; he was thin and haggard, and his clothes were seedy, and he looked miserable.
Example Sentence:
1 A throng of shoppers pushed against one another to the display tables of the department store.
2 A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.
3 An official pushed through the throng.
4 A patient throng was waiting in silence.
5 A throng of shoppers jammed the aisles.
6 Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
7 In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.'
8 The people felt that a good man was indeed their leader; and in enthusiastic crowds they thronged his way, and invoking the blessing of God upon him.
9 The streets of Beijing are thronged with two-wheeled contraptions; some appear to be conventional petrol mopeds but their eerie silence and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric.
10 The department store was thronged with people.