crowded together
idiom
: next to and usually touching each other in a space that is too small
plants crowded together in the garden
Examples of crowded together in a Sentence
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With just seven beds for heat stroke victims, patients’ parents and relatives crowded together on the mattresses.
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Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
Looking at the draw in the middle of last week, Fritz’s eyes drifted to the quarter just above him, where Shelton, Paul and Tiafoe were crowded together.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
Unlike the Bristol Bay or Kodiak fisheries, where vessels can be crowded together and where troopers aboard a patrol vessel can easily see practices and behavior, the Area M harvests are conducted by boats separated by vast distances.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
In a photo shared by Akins, the family crowded together with all their patriotic accessories on deck while posing for a silly family selfie.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023
Dozens of journalists crowded together to catch a glimpse of the Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying allegations.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
Never before have humans crowded together in such massive cities, accessing vast realms of knowledge with a click of the keyboard and sharing new concepts, new blueprints and designs across the sprawling social networks of the World Wide Web.
—Heather Pringle, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
In a stream of social media posts, a video shows mothers with their newborns crowded together in a hospital bomb shelter.
—Helena Oliviero, ajc, 1 Apr. 2022
Dozens of journalists crowded together to catch a glimpse of the Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying allegations.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
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Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
Looking at the draw in the middle of last week, Fritz’s eyes drifted to the quarter just above him, where Shelton, Paul and Tiafoe were crowded together.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
Unlike the Bristol Bay or Kodiak fisheries, where vessels can be crowded together and where troopers aboard a patrol vessel can easily see practices and behavior, the Area M harvests are conducted by boats separated by vast distances.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
In a photo shared by Akins, the family crowded together with all their patriotic accessories on deck while posing for a silly family selfie.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023
Dozens of journalists crowded together to catch a glimpse of the Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying allegations.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
Never before have humans crowded together in such massive cities, accessing vast realms of knowledge with a click of the keyboard and sharing new concepts, new blueprints and designs across the sprawling social networks of the World Wide Web.
—Heather Pringle, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
In a stream of social media posts, a video shows mothers with their newborns crowded together in a hospital bomb shelter.
—Helena Oliviero, ajc, 1 Apr. 2022
Dozens of journalists crowded together to catch a glimpse of the Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying allegations.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
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“Crowded together.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowded%20together. Accessed 3 Oct. 2023.
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