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Example sentences for "great crowd"

  • Illustration: "A great crowd of infuriated people came down to the beach.

  • But the officers had not been in possession of the lugger and her cargo more than three-quarters of an hour before a great crowd of infuriated people came down to the beach, armed with firearms and wicked-looking bludgeons.

  • One of her women looked out of a window, and then told her it was a great crowd of people collected about the holy woman to be cured of the headache by the imposition of her hands.

  • She was attended by a great crowd of ladies, slaves and eunuchs, who walked on each side, and behind her.

  • As soon as the people saw the holy woman, as they imagined him to be, they presently gathered about him in a great crowd.

  • There was a great crowd at the landing-place at Saa (Malanta) to meet us.

  • There was a great crowd present at this glad scene, as each one strives and presses forward to touch him if possible.

  • And his lady came down, too, with all her sons and daughters and a great crowd of other people, who all rejoiced to offer him a lodging.

  • There was a great crowd to accompany him and a very great press when it came to taking leave.

  • There was no great crowd of chaplains or of silly, gaping yokels, but of excellent knights and of people well equipped.

  • Just after sunrise we had a great crowd up at the tent to have a peep at us.

  • We then got into a canoe, and were paddled up to the other village, where a great crowd assembled, and where we publicly gave the chiefs our presents.

  • There was a great crowd on the beach; but it was all right, as boys and girls were to be seen there, as noisy as the grown-up folks.

  • We have a great crowd of natives in from Kupele, the nearest district to Mount Owen Stanley.

  • One of her women told her it was a great crowd of people collected about the holy woman to be cured of diseases by the imposition of her hands.

  • She was attended by a great crowd of ladies, slaves, and mutes, who walked on each side and behind her.

  • A great crowd of fashionably dressed people turned out and saw the motion picture records of events which they had seen in life only a couple of days before.

  • There was a great crowd gathered on the hill where this balloon was being inflated.

  • When our ship anchored off Kilindini there was a great crowd assembled on the pier.

  • There was a bridge at the place where I first came in sight of the river, and a great crowd, so eager as to be silent, gazing up the stream.

  • Suddenly we became aware of a great crowd assembled at a group of small houses a little off the public road, and turned our horse's head in that direction.

  • At the station a great crowd and a rather excited one was assembled.

  • At a way station a great crowd, great compared to the size of the compartment, came surging in.

  • Then they all set out with the five hundred rupees to a level field near the Raja's palace; a great crowd collected to see the fun and the Raja went there expecting easily to win five hundred rupees.

  • As I passed in front of a house a bright light suddenly shone from the cowshed; I looked round and saw a great crowd of women-witches standing there.

  • On the day fixed a great crowd of beaters collected, and their drums made a noise as if the world were being turned upside down.

  • Yes: there was a great crowd looking on: they were standing along the walls of the compound.

  • A great crowd of the town's people assembled to see what was going on.

  • But there is a great crowd at this moment, and the Sahibs have no time to spare.

  • In this tumult, above twenty Roman knights were squeezed to death, with as many matrons, with a great crowd besides.

  • When Jesus went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

  • Then his disciples said to him, "Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to feed such a great crowd?

  • They soon came out on the square and ran in a great crowd to the town which seemed to be deserted.

  • There was a great crowd of ants waiting to welcome them.

  • On the edge of the procession there followed a great crowd of women crying, and men mourning, in pity for Katheline, who herself walked like a lamb that allows itself to be led whither it knows not.

  • And I shall speak before a great crowd of people, coughing and hiccuping as I am--for all my life I have eaten too heartily.

  • And the populace was moved with pity and compassion, and a great crowd collected in the market square.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great crowd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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