crowd
noun
a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng.
will crowd
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future tenseof crowd.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“Now that they’re back and seemingly healthy, we’re worried they will crowd us out,” said Bradley Graham, co-owner of the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
Investors fear that artificial-intelligence agents will take over tasks performed by traditional software companies, and that competition from Anthropic, OpenAI and new AI startups will crowd the software market.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
Military top brass, political elites and ordinary party members will crowd Pyongyang for the twice-a-decade gathering, with supreme leader Kim Jong Un taking centre stage.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
This, combined with the reliance on the Play Disney Parks app, can help avoid one of the hiccups in immersive theater, in which participants will crowd around an actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
Soon the door will open, and in will crowd a horde of snide and treacherous little girls, whispering and pointing, and I will be servile, grateful.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
