Moving in large numbers

Usage examples of swarming.

Around the fast-growing sun, grains of dust and ice had accreted into swarming planetesimals.

The French camp is in this crater, stupefied, affrighted, starting up from sleeping,--a funereal swarming.

The sun has burned away the mist, disclosing an almost solid mass of transports to seaward, beaches swarming with amphtracs and men, troops moving through cornfields toward the tableland, landing craft forming waves, earlier waves retracting.

The root nodules of legumes would have neither form nor function without the masses of rhizobial bacteria swarming into root hairs, incorporating themselves with such intimacy that only an electron microscope can detect which membranes are bacterial and which plant.

At each crossroads and turn, Lirenda was balked by piled-up snow, street stalls swarming with commerce and stopped carts, and racing urchins playing a northcountry game with flat sticks and a stitched leather ball.

Several men, bristling with knives and pistols, were swarming out of the smaller boat onto the dock.

Weems, speaking for Horry, describes in ludicrous terms, their journey through North Carolina, -- through a region swarming with Tories, but, fortunately for our travellers, who were venomous without being active.

Crossing the threshold into the swarming temple of unknown darkness, I turned once to look at the outside world as the churchyard phosphorescence cast a sickly glow on the hilltop pavement.

Was she imagining Prankish invaders crossing the ford and swarming up the slopes?

Now at last he could see what battle stations really looked like: the piercing notes of the trumpets drawing men from every corner of Misenum, the rowboats ferrying the first of the sailors out to the huge triremes and quadriremes, the advance guard already boarding the warships and swarming over the decks, the high masts being raised, the oars readied.

Now at last he could see what battle-stations really looked like: the piercing notes of the trumpets drawing men from every corner of Misenum, the rowing boats ferrying the first of the sailors out to the huge quadriremes, the advance guard already boarding the warships and swarming over the decks, the high masts being raised, the oars readied.

In the first microsecond, space was filled with quagma, a swarming magma of quarks, as if the whole universe was a single huge proton.

In the screen Jotoki techslaves in vacskins could be seen swarming around with plasma torches, cutting away the snarled monofilament fabric to free the jam in the tight confines of the launch tube.

So it took us a second to realize what was going on when the attack did stait It came from above, a cloud of catapulted darts swarming in through the dome some thiity meters above the ground, headed straight for the center of the hemisphere.

For all Lady Deverham had relieved the Standish household of three puppies, after all the place still seemed to be swarming.