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Two of Suzan’s sons had apartments on higher floors, but the extended family had been crowding together on the ground floor, believing it would be safer.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

It was Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year�by Jewish reckoning the 5,732nd since the creation of the world�and the congregation had been crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise.

From Time Magazine Archive

All through the night the sheepmen had been crowding their flocks through the defile until there were already twenty or thirty thousand on Bronco Mesa, with fifty thousand to follow.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

As the second left the side gangway the Briton, who had been crowding on steam well, ranged in along side.

From Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

For some time this very thing had been crowding its truth about his wife's daily life.

From The Moccasin Maker by Mair, Charles