Example Sentences

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Also this week, a Shasta County elections official told the news website CalMatters that he had quit his job because election observers were crowding into the office in an intimidating manner.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2024

Its mother gave birth "a couple-hundred yards" from the cliff edge, and Mr Beynon said people were crowding them "trying to take photographs and forced her closer and closer to the edge".

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

Yet inside many Wuhan hospitals, fever wards were crowding.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2020

In my last year of primary school, I did a county cross-country race and afterwards loads and loads of people were crowding around my mum.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2017

Nicole Castro had faked an incoming call to ditch the girls that were crowding around her.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin