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Example sentences for "great throng"

  • He was escorted by a great throng of admiring women and children.

  • A great throng of Indians was present, for Fort Laramie was a busy post.

  • A company of the Twenty-second Infantry fired three volleys over their graves, and a great throng of the Sioux were present, to mourn.

  • Her trial was conducted at Charlestown in the presence of a great throng.

  • The shades of night were falling fast over the village of Salem, as Charles hurried homeward, and he was amazed as he came in sight of the house, to see a great throng of people going away from the door.

  • A great throng of people gathered about them.

  • When Running Fox and his guards reached the center of the village they were beset by a great throng of people who seemed intent upon reaching the prisoner.

  • As soon as the exhausted young warriors stepped from the canoe they were surrounded by a great throng of friends who instantly began to ply them with questions.

  • However, Running Fox had little chance to think of him at the moment, for he soon found himself the center of a great throng of people who had gathered to do him honor.

  • But Khaled, having visited the bath, arrayed himself magnificently and rode upon his bay mare to the mosque, surrounded by the courtiers and the chief officers of the state, and by a great throng of slaves from the palace.

  • It chanced one evening that Khaled was riding among the gardens without the city, attended only by a few horsemen, for he was simple in all his ways and liked little to have a great throng of attendants about him.

  • But not long after the middle of the night they were joined by a great throng of Bedouins from Abdullah's tribe.

  • Up this road Jesus walked with his disciples and a great throng of people, all on their way to the Passover.

  • When Jesus stepped out of his boat on the shore near Bethsaida, there he found a great throng of people, more than five thousand men, besides some women and children.

  • As we went down the street we saw a great throng of people surging about an image which was being carried upon the shoulders of some men.

  • Now in the theater at that time was gathered a great throng of people.

  • We had a delightful service that night in the church, a great throng of people being present, six of whom made public profession of their faith in Jesus.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great attention; great cause; great deale; great depths; great dinner; great favour; great flocks; great hall; great heat; great houses; great literature; great multitudes; great painter; great power; great price; great reward; great roar; great secret; great sense; great thing; great uneasiness; great variety; great world; greater share; greatest pleasure; this last