throng
noun
a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
was thronging
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past progressiveof throng.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I was just writing about the language that was thronging in my brain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2010
Early on that morning, long before the court was opened, a stream of people was thronging toward the City Hall by twenties and thirties and hundreds.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
A crowd of people, principally women, was thronging round the church lighted up for the wedding.
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett
The street was thronging with noisy boys, and at intervals a band of young herders clattered into the square.
From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland
A horde of civilians was thronging the main street of the village.
From Combed Out by Frederick Augustus Voigt
