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Thronging

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.

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thronging

n. The act of those who throng or form a crowd. vb. (present participle of throng English)

Usage examples of "thronging".

The thronging constellations rush in crowds, Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods.

To Yasmela, standing white and speechless at the door of her tent, the host seemed a pitiful handful in comparison to the thronging desert horde.

So Antilochus turned and ran as a savage cry went up and Hector and all his Trojans showered deadly shafts in hot pursuit, but he wheeled and stood his ground when he reached his thronging cohorts.

Hector drew back to his thronging comrades, terrified to hear the voice of god.

And there, moving to and fro in the palace, she trod the ground forgetful of the heaven-sent woes thronging round her and of others that were destined to follow.

With the thronging of many sorts of people, in parties and singly, into the waiting room, they became once again mere observers of their kind, more or less critical in temper, until the crowd grew so that individual traits were merged in the character of multitude.

On the thronging banks of the river There is neither pulse nor breath.

No matter how many people were thronging the streets outside , I found every one of these churches empty.