Crossword clues for thronged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Throng \Throng\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thronged; p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging.] To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: throng)
WordNet
adj. filled with great numbers crowded together; "I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas"
Usage examples of "thronged".
Hyllean land, and they left behind all the islands that were beforetime thronged by the Colchians--the Liburnian isles, isle after isle, Issa, Dysceladus, and lovely Pityeia.
The Horse of Death tameless as wind Fled, and with his hoofs did grind To dust the murderers thronged behind.
Under the walls the mailed figures swarmed, battering at the gates, rearing up scaling-ladders, pushing storming-towers, thronged with spearmen, against the turrets.
The rumors came into the fertile uplands where stately cities rose above blue lakes and rivers: the rumors marched along the broad white roads thronged with ox-wains, with lowing herds, with rich merchants, knights in steel, archers and priests.
Khoraja were thronged by crowds of people who watched the hosts riding from the southern gate.
Among these pillars fluttered great green and scarlet parrots, and the hall was thronged with black-skinned, hawk-faced warriors.
She was alarmed by the rabble that thronged the streets--and the noise, but Ty1er scoffed at her fears.
As though a signal had been given, hordes of Chinese rabble thronged into the square from every side, ready to take up the battle as they screamed insults in a mixture of Chinese and pidgin.
The streets about the Fireflower Market were thronged with porters, slaves, housewives, and their maids.
It was a rare sunny day, and the menagerie was thronged with nobility and their servants.
And long she held back in speechless horror, and all around her thronged visions of the pleasing cares of life.
She mothered us, kind, but enjoying it, and both she and her husband happily welcomed the reporters from the London dailies who thronged through the doors the next day.
Within minutes the deck was thronged with struggling men, and they were so mingled that only their shouted war-cries identified foe from new-made friend.
All sorts of wheeled things thronged it, conspicuous among which rolled and jarred the gaudily painted Stages, with quivering horses driven each by a man who sat in the shade of a branching white umbrella, and suffered with a moody truculence of aspect, and as if he harbored the bitterness of death in his heart for the crowding passengers within, when one of them pulled the strap about his legs, and summoned him to halt.
In spite of a conspicuous warning that any dog entering the garden would be destroyed, the place was thronged with dogs unmolested and apparently in no danger of the threatened doom.