Example sentences for: thronged

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

  • Merchants thronged to the large cities that were growing up around the castles at Edo (population already 1 million in the 18th century), Osaka (400,000), and Nagoya and Kanazawa (each 100,000) — all huge in comparison with European cities of the time.

  • Templeton developed a cult following: Fund shareholders thronged to the annual meetings in Toronto and obeyed his every pronouncement.

  • The merchant seaman, plantation owners, and businessmen who thronged the city streets also looked for the distraction of other pleasures, and prostitution was rife in the less salubrious parts of town.

  • They would first attack four targets: the SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, the border crossings from Jordan into Israel, and two Christian holy sites, at a time when all these locations were likely to be thronged with American and other tourists.

  • An article describes how American personal-injury lawyers thronged to Nairobi after the U.S.


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