S. R. Crockett
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Examples of throng in a Sentence
Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2023
Biggest star encounter in Toronto… The throng of fans chasing Ryan Reynolds.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
Free from the throngs of tourists that come along with the summer months and sandwiched before the holiday season travel deluge, the fall is the ideal time to get on the road.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
At one point before the sentencing hearing began, the throngs of people waiting to enter broke into spontaneous applause when Ridley-Thomas made his way through the crowd.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
One person received serious injuries in the early morning shooting, which police said was not connected to the throngs celebrating J’ouvert but instead was from an altercation from two groups nearby, the Globe reported.
—Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
In the play, which premiered in 2007 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre and which was last staged locally in 2011 at the Old Globe, Violet Weston’s three daughters are among the throng that gathers at the Oklahoma house after the disappearance, and feared suicide, of patriarch Beverly.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
Taliban fighters guarding the gates would fire their rifles toward the throngs.
—USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
During each ride, Amir pointed his camera through the windows of train cars, across platforms and up escalators in search of interesting people and contrasts, like a family with huge suitcases being swept up in a throng of Beyoncé fans.
—Amir Hamja, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
Catherine Bennett, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
Protesters thronged outside Ben-Gvir's home in a West Bank settlement Friday to condemn his remarks.
—Isabel Debre, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
For sure, this coastal town is beloved in summer, thronged with visitors who order lobster rolls and blueberry pie and queue up for sailing excursions.
—Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
Read full article Witnesses said a large crowd of devotees had thronged the temple to perform a fire ritual and celebrate the festival for the deity Rama.
—Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets on Tuesday, blocking major highways and thronging the country’s main international airport, in countrywide demonstrations against the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system..
—Julia Frankel, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
Normally thronging with 18,000 students, the liberal arts university campus feels like a scene from an apocalyptic science fiction film.
—Catherine Porter Andrea Mantovani, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
On Sunday, tens of thousands of defiant junta supporters thronged the largest stadium in the capital, Niamey, voicing their anger against ECOWAS and chanting the name of the military official who claims to be in charge, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani.
—Omar Hama Saley, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
Netanyahu’s supporters, meanwhile, thronged central Tel Aviv — normally the setting for anti-government protests.
—Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English throng, thrang "mass, press," going back to Old English *thrang or gethrang (with ge-, collective prefix), going back to West Germanic *þrang- (whence Middle Dutch gedranc "crowd, press," dranc, drang "pressure," Old High German gidrang "crowd, mass"), noun ablaut derivative from the base of Germanic *þrengan-,*þrenhan- "to press" (whence Old Saxon thringan "to press, urge," Old High German dringan, thringan, Old Norse þryngva "to press, crowd," Gothic þreihan), going back to dialectal Indo-European *trenk- "press," whence also Lithuanian trenkiù, treñkti "to push roughly, fling"
Verb
Middle English thrangen, throngen, probably derivative of throng, thrang throng entry 1, replacing thringen, going back to Old English thringan
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Throng.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/throng. Accessed 3 Oct. 2023.
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