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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forming groups (of people)
alienated
be ranged against/with something/someone
class reunion
cluster
crowd
crowd around (someone/something)
federalization
flock
form
gather
incestuousness
mob
rally
range
regather
regroup
reunion
round
the assembled company
ungrouped

throng | American Dictionary

throng
noun[ C ]
us/θrɔŋ, θrɑŋ/
a large group of people:
A huge throng had gathered around the speaker.
throng
verb[ I/T ]
us/θrɔŋ/
to be or go somewhere in very large numbers:
[ T ]The narrow streets were thronged with tourists.
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]Reporters thronged around her.

Examples of throng

throng
There would have been no ceremonies, no public offering of gratitude, no massing of applauding throngs, nor did they ask it.
Streets were thronged with people intent on partying and carousing, singing, dancing and playing games.
There was no furling of flags when they died, no pomp and ceremony, no throngs.
By now he has also reached" the realm of real life" - by which he" understood a whirling world of parading throngs, physical love and revolutionary slogans".
Evacuees frequently began their journey early in the morning at a railway station thronged with crowds of forlorn and confused children, clutching suitcase and gas mask.
The street is thronged with people.
Kings and archbishops are not automatically given starring roles, and his stage instead is thickly thronged with a rich diversity of beings, alive, dead, and even the undead.
There was to be no mingling with the throng at the movies.
The heightened physical activity has most men sweating, their bodies perpetually moving in a throng of more bodies.
Extras and ballet students were paid small sums of money and added to the throng on stage when the need arose, as it frequently did.
You should think long and hard before deciding to join the unhappy throng.
A temporary one was erected near the docks, but it was entirely inadequate to deal with the throng of sick immigrants.
Seeking to push through this terrified and bewailing throng and their attackers, making for that rear door, he recognised that this might well ruin all.
In essence, he was pointing out to the assembled throng that such actions are for the heretics' own good.
There is nothing more remarkable at the present time than the throngs of people, and particularly of young people, who attend our best concerts.
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