What is "huddling"

Usage examples of "huddling".

The high priest rushed out of the circle to join his huddling companions.

Donat, who got there first, quickly broke open a wooden locker, each dwarf taking up a crossbow and huddling tight against the shielding planking while loading.

One orc rushed behind a sapling, and so Wulfgar growled more loudly, shouted more loudly, and swung more powerfully, taking out the tree and the huddling creature behind it.

Quenthel asked as the group settled to the stone avenue, huddling together and keeping their voices low.

The black shapes of ruined buildings leered and leaned from all sides, huddling down close over the streets as if to hem in the trav­elers, only to fade into dark blurs with each careful stride.

The wizard struck the hard earth awkwardly and crumpled, huddling with his face in the cold slush covering the ground.

Two bulky men, huddling in cloaks that might have come from a ragbag, were on duty beneath the banner to keep out anyone who wanted to peek around without paying, but even those were in short supply, nowadays.

They were all awake, huddling in their cloaks and feeding the remnants of their shelters into the cook fires or cutting up the cold remains of last night’s rabbit to add to the porridge in the kettles.

At least the tales balanced out one another, but anyone who could say they had actually seen the Daughter-Heir huddling in the arms of her companion might add a tale of fear to the blend, and if her enemies believed she was afraid, they would only grow bolder.

The only people in the room were six men and five women huddling over their drinks around an oval table, larger than the rest, that stood in the middle of the floor.

She peeked curiously past the edge of her deep cowl, curiously and cautiously, but she kept her face hid­den, and even her hands, all wrapped in that dark cloak and even huddling against Setalle like a child seeking the protection of her mother in a strange crowd.

Until today, anyway, and whatever had set them huddling like frightened hens, the Aes Sedai had been every bit as anxious.

A drawing together, a huddling together of minds-and it was all a game.

Everyone looked at Tehani, huddling wet in the hull, and it was immediately apparent, especially to Tehani, that the simplest solution to the difficulty she presented would be to knock her on the head and throw her into the storm.

During breaks in the storm, the forlorn missionaries had seen blunt and brutal Tierra del Fuego to the north and had retired to freezing berths, huddling together in fear and seasickness.