What is "overcrowd"

Usage examples of "overcrowd".

As she followed Melia into one of the overcrowded longboats Jenny saw that Mattie Denver and a number of others were very far from sober, although, for once, the effect of the liquor they had consumed had been to dampen, rather than raise, their spirits.

The scene suggested wholesale horror and confusion, men diving from the decks and trying to outswim burning oil or the suction of a great ship going under and overcrowded lifeboats circled by sharks.

And here we see the effects of malnutrition and the effects of overcrowded, unsanitary shantytowns and overfilled garbage dumps and we see thin, ribby, curly-tailed dogs digging on heaps of decomposing rubbish on which children play and pick and shit.

The marketwoman looked on in silence, and there were witnesses all around: the octagonal fortress tower, with its latest subtenant, the overcrowded exchange bureau, and next to it the broad-beamed covered market that seemed bloated with mist, and the gloomy Dominican Church of St.

The cynicism, and his unreduced rank of Apprentice Brother, Third Class, made it possible for him to go into the ministry, rather than into the already overcrowded ranks of Techs, Fares, or Lays.

No one could complain, Hymneth mused virtuously, that his dungeons suffered from overcrowding.

Now, as the Acoma retinue passed between the overcrowded tenements, the spicy, smoke-scented air that issued from the dens of the drug-flower sellers became prevalent.

Jeremiah was brought to the overcrowded jail filled, not with angry miners, but drunken men clodhopping and singing in off-key voices.

Here, craftsmen continue to make copperware as in the past, keeping only their best pieces and melting the rest to avoid overcrowding their displays.

So, rather than syphilis being a counterexample of the generally one-way course of epidemic disease, it confirms that the development of epidemics requires social conditions typical of overcrowded civilization.

That overcrowding and climate can not be the sole factors is indicated by the fact that the Negro race has been decimated, wherever it has met tuberculosis.

Lubin gave thanks for cells forcibly overcrowded with mitochondria, for trimeric antibodies, for macrophage and lymphokine and fibroblast production cranked up to twice the mammalian norm.

Our Galera was overcrowded then, and 150 men had to use the two toilets all at once.

For a moment, Katherine wished she were back in the small apartment she and Herm had occupied, on an overcrowded world where everyone was very careful to be polite, lest the peace officers cite them with a civil violation and fine them.

Offensive to many, but a welcome scandal as far as the overcrowded messdecks were concerned.