drove

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noun \ ˈdrōv \

Definition of drove

1 :a group of animals driven or moving in a body

2 :a large number :crowd —usually used in plural especially with in

came in droves

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Examples of drove in a Sentence

people flocked to the annual festival in droves

Recent Examples of drove from the Web

The cop cars came in droves, filing out to the road, eventually closing it off in anticipation that the president of the United States would soon roll through.

— abby phillip, Washington Post, "How Trump’s Texas disaster relief visit turned into an impromptu rally," 31 Aug. 2017
Lakewood Church spokesman Don Iloff said the building was never closed, but the building had flooded over the weekend and accepting droves of people then would have been unsafe.

— margaret hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, "Floodwater Still Rising as Harvey Makes Second Landfall in Louisiana," 30 Aug. 2017
Private lenders have already been closing in droves amid a cull by the central bank that’s yanked one in three licenses since 2014.

— jake rudnitsky, Bloomberg.com, "Billionaire Owners Watch Otkritie Flail as Russia Reboots Banks," 25 Aug. 2017
The 2008 recession exacerbated a longtime affordable housing crisis, and working- and middle-class residents were forced to leave the Keys in droves.

— alex daugherty, miamiherald, "Trump’s anti-climate change crusade doesn’t worry the Florida Keys," 25 Aug. 2017
Last August, when the hip-hop artist decided to open 21 pop-up stores for the merchandise across the globe, fans lined up in droves just to have the chance to scoop up a piece or two.

— rachel swalin, ELLE Decor, "Kanye West Could Win A Major Design Award For His 'Life of Pablo' Tour Merch," 17 Aug. 2017
With his Neo-like prescience with six-shooters, forged from the metal of Excalibur, the carnage Roland unleashes on droves of unsuspecting baddies is easily the highlight of an otherwise uninspired vomit of action sequences.

— richard white, Popular Mechanics, "'The Dark Tower' Is a Gunslinging Disaster," 8 Aug. 2017
Bringing in a great band helps, but too many undesirables started showing up in droves, so police had to be rented.

— Cincinnati.com, "Ch@troom: Some still festive about church events," 2 Aug. 2017
But over the past week, this picturesque stretch of land was marred by yellow, spongy clumps that washed ashore in droves.

— brigit katz, Smithsonian, "Thousands of Mysterious Yellow “Sponges” Wash Up On French Beaches," 21 July 2017

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