Example sentences for: throng

How can you use “throng” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The giant standing Buddha in Cave No. 18 wears a strange vestment called the “Thousand Buddha Robe”; on the front of the garment the sculptor has carved a throng of mini-Buddha figures.

  • The Los Angeles Times told readers that "the real news was the wall-to-wall press throng" at the news conference.

  • The liberal Guardian of London had a cartoon on its editorial page showing Monica Lewinsky dragging Clinton by his penis off his presidential pedestal into a throng of hysterical, knife-waving enemies.

  • Crowds of humble mortals stride the pavements down below while, three or four stories above, on the façades of buildings, a very different crowd of carved stone beings, the Olympian gods and goddesses, throng the upper air, in clear illustration of the dualistic character of all existence: mortals below, immortals above, flesh here, stone there; the ever-changing, the everlasting.

  • San Juan is a living city, and it’s especially bustling after dark, when crowds throng to the bars and restaurants or simply stroll the narrow streets and airy plazas.


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