The gaol at all times was so hideously overcrowded that plague and pestilence perpetually ravaged it, and the deadly infection often spread into the neighbouring courts of law.
In order to delay the dispatch of the court's overcrowded calendar, every one demanded a jury trial.
By 1840 the pay of unskilled labor had dropped to about seventy-five cents a day in the overcrowded cities, and in the winter, in either city or country, many unskilled workers were glad to work for merely their board.
In the cities, unskilled immigrants had so overcrowded the common labor market that competition had reduced them to a pitiable state.
Though they were in reality only overcrowded bunk-houses, the most enormous prices were charged for beds in them.
While we were rowing across the lake," he said, "you made some remark about your motor-boat being overcrowded on the trip up and I got an idea from some things that were said that two or three of you came up here alone last year.
The result is that the profession of teaching, for women, is overcrowded and becoming more overcrowded.
I find that all these pictures which I have brought home with me to look at, with "that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude," are becoming clearer and brighter as the excitement of overcrowded days and weeks gradually calms down.
Torquemada attributes the separation merely to the overcrowded state of the city; and the fable of the two bundles which originated the dissension in early times has already been related.
Mames, undertaken because his own territory was found to be overcrowded with the increasing numbers of his subjects, and because the Mames were a miserable people, who should be content with less territory.
As the cool of evening approaches, the overcrowdedhouses of the poor pour forth entire families into the street, where supper is cooked and eaten, and all manner of domestic operations carried on.
The steps leading to the front door had not been hearthstoned as were those of its neighbour, while in the area were bits of wastepaper, straw, and the flotsam and jetsam of the noisy, overcrowded street.
Jones asked an Englishman they found in the lobby of one of the overcrowded hotels.
He obtained for his charges a comfortable suite of rooms in an overcrowded hotel, obliging the landlord to turn away other guests that Mr. Merrick's party might be accommodated.
The rooms are not overcrowded with furniture and ornaments, and these scarce commodities stand out in bold relief against the white-washed walls and bare flooring.
Such a salvation will be twofold, for it will save not only the girl, but also a profession overcrowded with loveless followers.
Hordes of hapless refugees, with their wives and children, began to flock into the overcrowdedtowns and townlets.
I felt that I ought to work in one of the overcrowded cities; that I might, with the income my father had left me, alleviate the sufferings of some of the deserving poor; that I might be the means of effecting some good in the world.
Thousands and thousands who had to abandon their property rushed to the stations with wife and children, fought for room in the overcrowded trains, surrounded by a howling mob, and even then were punched and slapped by policemen.
Before anovercrowded house the Chancellor described simply and clearly the efforts of the Government for the preservation of peace.
It likewise frequently prevails amongst the poor and badly fed living in the overcrowded quarters of large towns and cities.
Any house, or part of a house, so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family.
Hence it follows that thickly populated and overcrowded localities suffer much more from its ravages than those which are less densely inhabited.
He stood in the middle of the overcrowded stuffy room with his long but well-shaped legs wide apart, his bulky round head aslant, and one of his bared mighty arms akimbo.
Hailing this pretext with delight he quickened his pace as much as the overcrowded sidewalks would allow.
There is the depopulation of the countryside, and the influx of foreign paupers into our already overcrowded towns.
Stunted, overcrowded town populations, irregular employment, sweated industries, these things are as detestable to true Imperialism as they are to philanthropy, and they are detestable to the Tariff Reformer.
The railway profession is very much overcrowded just now, and there's not a single vacancy for station-master anywhere.
It's all very well to talk about doing something in this beastly overcrowded world, but what can a middle-aged bachelor do except put his trust in Providence?
Then there is teaching, which is profitable in its higher branches, and perhaps the very pleasantest of all the callings open to woman; but teaching is at present an overcrowded profession, the applicants everywhere outnumbering the places.
The sky was overcrowded with low, ragged clouds, without discernible order or direction.
The wealthy were interred in the churches themselves: in the church of Les Innocents, which was specially affected by the nobility, the aisles were often crowded with coffins awaiting their turn to be placed in the overcrowded vaults.
In view of the somewhat overcrowded condition of the labor market of the United States, every patriotic citizen should rejoice at such a result.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overcrowded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
