throng
Speech parts
1. throng - Noun
2. throng - Adjective
3. throng - Verb
Meaning
of Thring
A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
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The crowd packed the auditorium
A candidate living in an alternate reality with a CGI induced throng of supporters and fiction writers to chronicle his mighty exploits in the lists of political jousting!
As he made his way past the waiting throng, he heard the remark, “Yes, damn it, I knew they would let the n----- through.”
At Leadenhall Market's race, in East London, an elderly woman was seen concentrating deeply as she flipped her pancake while surrounded by a throng of onlookers.
Carlotta amuses a throng of admirers with a tale of how her dramatic solo was cut from the Follies because the audience found it humorous, transforming it as she sings it into a toast to her own hard-won survival ("I'm Still Here").
And so, you see, I have been swathed in weddings, basking in the festivities of first toasts and slow dances, meaningful glances between bride and groom and a joyful throng of people wanting to dance along.