throng
noun
a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
is thronging
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present progressiveof throng (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Washington is thronging with deserving Democrats who are sure that they won the election for Harry Truman.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am simply going to slip up behind Him when the crowd is thronging Him, and touch His garment.
From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Clovis G. Chappell
The boys run out to the brow of the hill, and come back in great excitement, to announce that the whole town is thronging up toward the house.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
A dense crowd is thronging the banks, watching in fascination one of the most beautiful natural phenomena in Siberia.
From Selected Polish Tales by Marie Busch
A crowd of341 distinguished bibliomaniacs, in fancy's eye, is thronging around me, and demanding a satisfactory memorial of their deeds.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
