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Example sentences for "crowded"

Lexicographically close words:
crow; crowbar; crowbars; crowberry; crowd; crowding; crowds; crowed; crowes; crowing
  1. I found the avenues to it crowded with poor women, bearing infants in their arms, who, I was told, came to receive the new-fashioned preservative against the smallpox.

  2. And now all the women crowded together at the corner of the pew, and turned their backs upon her just to let her know that there was no room for her anywhere.

  3. They did not wait to be asked twice, but crowded round the wagon straightway, and Dame Sarah helped them to everything with both hands.

  4. The promenade is crowded on popular afternoons with all the types familiar in leisure Paris.

  5. After that time, however, though to the casual visitor Paris may seem as animated and as crowded as ever, he who knows la Ville Lumiere realizes that for the moment it is a social desert.

  6. The days are not long enough for the goings and comings that must be crowded into them.

  7. There is a short fall racing season round about Paris, crowded in twixt summer outings and the time of dog and gun.

  8. Late hilarity is the exception rather than the rule, but enough gaiety is crowded into the hours between eleven A.

  9. Dinard and the other Brittany resorts have been crowded as has Normandy, but Dinard is not so popular with the smart Parisienne as is Trouville, and money is not spent so lavishly in the Brittany resorts as in those of Normandy.

  10. With Ostend the season ends, and during the next week all of the expresses running to Paris are crowded with homing holiday folk.

  11. Or perhaps the garden party is in some nearby resort such as Houlgate or Villers, and the clean white road leading to the rendezvous is crowded with automobiles and traps as the appointed hour approaches.

  12. The pesage was crowded with women in the airiest and most elaborate of summer toilettes and, suddenly, the heavens opened and a torrent of rain poured down.

  13. The Casino was more crowded than usual on the following evening.

  14. Limited water and unlimited whisky, crowded dens and unwholesome air; we need nothing more to make a city full of drunkards.

  15. So this is Blackfriars Wynd," remarked one of our party, as we passed down the crowded alley.

  16. As the night goes on, the crowd becomes more drunk and criminal until the legal hour of closing the spirit-shops, when hundreds of pallid, ragged wretches are vomited forth upon the street to carry terrors into their dark, crowded homes.

  17. Alas for the hundreds of girl-children growing up among the debasing circumstances of the crowded "lands" of our wynds and closes, without even the instincts of virtue!

  18. And his rangers crowded closer, eager, like hounds ready to run.

  19. At this juncture several more outlaws crowded out of the door, and the one in the lead was a tall man of stalwart physique.

  20. Other men crowded close, forming a circle, curious, ready to be friendly or otherwise, according to how the tall interrogator marked the new-comer.

  21. Without a doubt we were living in a crowded and glorious epoch.

  22. As our train wound its way through suburbia we began more clearly to realise the promise of a crowded and glorious week.

  23. The room was crowded with people who were there to see and to be seen.

  24. Yet that half-hour after midnight was crowded and glorious.

  25. Such a crowded hour of wisdom, wit and historic revelation was an experience that even a dullard was not likely to forget.

  26. But my curiosity did not last through many years of his life, which was crowded with incidents.

  27. For several days, therefore, his house was crowded with visiters, all desirous of hearing the mind speak.

  28. The boats glided fast across the lagoon, propelled by the paddles of the stalwart Polynesians who manned them, and crowded to the water's edge with groups of grinning and shouting warriors.

  29. In a moment a tom-tom began to beat from behind, and the people all crowded without the circle.

  30. Forthwith, the sailors crowded round them in a hollow square.

  31. The whole party seemed so surprised and gratified at this proof of condescension on the part of the divine stranger that they crowded round Felix once more, praising and thanking him volubly.

  32. Its summit was crowded with a basking population of sea-gulls and pelicans.

  33. At its close the women crowded around Muriel and took her hand in theirs, kissing it many times over, with tears in their eyes, and betraying an immense amount of genuine feeling.

  34. The decks were crowded with men whose glittering spears and burnished helmets gave them a very warlike aspect, and struck terror into the hearts of the people who saw them from the river's banks.

  35. The bonders crowded round the foot of the gallows, throwing stones and clods of earth at the heads, and crying out that there they fared meetly together, rascal by rascal.

  36. Kolbiorn was about to repeat the blow when several of the Danes, retreating aft, crowded between him and their king.

  37. The fleet was now abreast of a low lying point of land at the inner coast of Hoed Isle, and it was now seen that the wide bay beyond was crowded all over with vessels of war.

  38. Very soon the roadway of the bridge was so crowded with the slain that many of the men fell over the parapet into the deep water of the river.

  39. At this juncture Earl Erik paused, for he saw that Thorkel Nefja's decks were densely crowded with men who had retreated from vessel to vessel before the onslaught of the vikings.

  40. Although they found it impossible to board the Serpent, they nevertheless could assail her crowded decks with arrows and well aimed spears, and the Norsemen fell in great numbers.

  41. Scarcely had the King's words left his lips when one of the noblest grasses of all, her broad green ribbons rustling as she moved, left the crowded ranks of the grasses, and eagerly advanced before the King.

  42. The streets were full of people, their arms crowded with big white parcels tied with red ribbon.

  43. They were all perfectly delighted to see him, and they left off dancing and crowded round him and cried out all together, which is the way the fairies sometimes talk: "O Gillibloom, what have you learned?

  44. But not for long; the enemy crowded up the mountain in such strength that Rodes and Stevens could not hold their line and were driven from the crest.

  45. The Fourteenth rushed upon the crowded ranks of intruders in the wood, delivered their volleys at close range, and shouting, charged the mass.

  46. As they advanced the peninsula narrowed, and when within short range of the works, the left regiment of the front line, the Seventh Connecticut, was crowded into the marsh.

  47. The Third held its ground until the Seventh was crowded back at right angles, and then changed its front to support the Seventh.

  48. The remainder of the division hurried to the firing line, and Wright's battery and Major Haskell's mortar batteries came into action with terrible effect upon the crowded masses of the Federals.

  49. The drawing crowded it out, and for the first time he found himself as ready with his pencil as he had been with his pen.

  50. The room was not large enough for the numbers that crowded to hear Professor Ruskin, and each of these lectures, like the previous and the following courses, had to be repeated to a second audience.

  51. Most of the room crowded with bookcases and cabinets for minerals.

  52. The continued weakness of his health kept him from taking steps to enter the Church; and his real interest in art was not crowded out even by the last studies for his examination.

  53. The quays were crowded with persons whose anger vented itself in reproaches against him, which he supported with the utmost apparent serenity.

  54. As the columns penetrated into Paris, they were swelled by new groups, that poured forth from the crowded streets that open on the boulevards and the quays.

  55. Never, perhaps, were so many tragical events crowded into so short a space of time, never was the mysterious connexion which exists between deeds and their consequences developed with greater rapidity.

  56. Arriving too late, these deputies wandered in the crowded court-yard, vestibules, and staircases of the palace.

  57. Its marvellous palaces, washed by the waves, were crowded together on a narrow spot of ground, so that the city was like a vessel at anchor, on board which a people driven from the land have taken refuge with all their treasures.

  58. Events rapidly ripened; ideas and things were crowded into her life: she had no infancy.

  59. The streets and public squares were crowded with people; the national guards assembled; the drums beat to arms; the alarm-gun thundered every minute.

  60. Their climbing up amused the multitude of spectators crowded in the gardens.

  61. The politicians, who crowded round the Comte de Provence and the Comte d'Artois, and poured forth idle invectives against the truths of philosophy and the principles of democracy.

  62. Willie still had Neptune on the outside, as he did not care to risk being crowded on to the rails and possibly not be able to find an opening at the finish.

  63. At a comparatively early hour the course was crowded with a large number of vehicles of all descriptions, from the smart buggy to the more humble ramshackle which hardly seemed capable of holding together.

  64. The people crowded round them, and there was a lot of jostling and pushing in a good-humoured way.

  65. Along it lay the barges, a curving many-tinted line, their tall flag-staffs flying the colours of the colleges to which they belonged, their decks crowded with spectators.

  66. In a few moments, she and her maid were lost to sight on the crowded pavement.

  67. Connie assented, and the two girls were soon in the long and generally crowded street leading to the Cornmarket.

  68. On this afternoon, however, the Hoopers' little drawing-room and the lawn outside were crowded with folk.

  69. The starting-gun had boomed--communicating the usual thrill and sudden ripple of talk through the crowded barges.

  70. Then he watched her in what seemed something of a triumphal progress through the crowded hall.

  71. For in the now crowded hall, filled with the chatter of many voices, a group was making its way from the doorway, on one member of which many curious eyes had been already turned.

  72. Out they went, this time into the crowded Cornmarket, where there were no colleges, and where the town that was famous long before the University began, seemed to be living its own vigorous life, untrammelled by the men in gowns.

  73. Meanwhile, Constance herself was only conscious of one face and figure in the crowded theatre.

  74. Meanwhile Joseph followed close at Connie's side, directing her, till they passed through various crowded streets, and left the railway behind.

  75. At first came up reminiscences of the past; then they were crowded out by images of the present.

  76. These thoughts have never crowded on me half so fast as they have done to-night.

  77. He is frequently my companion in my walks, and even in crowded streets replies to my slightest look or gesture, as though he could read my thoughts.

  78. Through the struggle of parts for room or for food an unused organ in the individual may be crowded (ontogenetic--Roux).

  79. The struggle of the parts of Roux has been crowded by him back to the representatives of these parts in the germ.

  80. It certainly has been a crowded one," said Belle.

  81. The men crowded round with eager questions, and their delight was unbounded, for none knew better than they what risks Cora had run in those trackless woods.

  82. They all crowded around and showered her rescuer with thanks, as Cora introduced them.

  83. The ford was crowded with horsemen and foot and Indians, all mingled together.

  84. In the mean time, the great mass of the victors and vanquished crowded the bank of the ford.

  85. In the Pullman there was a wild turmoil, as the relieved passengers crowded around the boys and wrung their hands in congratulation.

  86. Everywhere were hilarious cowboys, who as soon as they recognized Bert crowded about the party and made progress difficult.

  87. There was a shriek from the women passengers in the crowded Pullman, and the men looked at each other in consternation.

  88. On the trip to the ranch the cowboys crowded around the boys, and plied them with innumerable questions, which they answered to the best of their ability.

  89. The cowboys crowded around, and listened eagerly while Bert gave an account of the attack by the Indians and its result.

  90. Bert's quick mind was busy piecing together the events of the past crowded hour.

  91. There was a stir at this and they crowded round the speaker.

  92. Tears were streaming down half the faces upturned toward the crowded decks.

  93. The three months since her coming to Chicago had been crowded and eventful.

  94. The 7:52 Northwestern morning train out of Winnebago was always pretty comfortably crowded with shoppers who were taking a five-hour run down to Chicago to get a hat and see the new musical show at the Illinois.

  95. The passengers were filing down the gangplank now; rushing down as quickly as the careful hands of the crew would allow them, and hurling themselves into the arms of friends and family crowded below.

  96. In her mind she went over the list of those whose lives had touched hers in the last few crowded years.


  97. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crowded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.