Synonyms:
thronged
Meaning: filled with great numbers crowded together; "I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas"
Usage examples
"Well," he said, "I mean it is thronged with people.
Smolny was almost empty, but the Duma was thronged and noisy.
The great Y. M. C. A. buildings were thronged as in no other city the writer ever visited.
Red-men, half breeds, and wood-men thronged the place, where they were sure they would get a good meal.
By and bye he passed into a cross street, which, although densely filled with people, was not quite so much thronged as the main one he had quitted.
It takes a day or two for the rejoicings to get fully under way, but by the second or third day the fun is at its height, and the streets are thronged with merrymakers.
So successful was his appeal that when he himself went a few hours later to see what could be done, he found the road thronged with people carrying food and necessaries.
The exigencies of the moment scarcely admitted of soldiers being equipped at once, and it was no uncommon thing to see the roads thronged with conscripts in their ordinary clothes.
When the appointed hour arrived the procession was formed at the royal palace, and moved toward the Cathedral through a dense and compact mass of spectators that every where thronged the way.
It was the night Lady Glencore received; and, as usual, the street was crowded with equipages, which somehow seemed to have got into inextricable confusion,--some endeavoring to turn back, while others pressed forward,--the court of the palace being closely packed with carriages which the thronged street held in fast blockade.