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as in throngs
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
people flocked to the annual festival in droves
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Recent Examples of droves
Eclipse chasers will travel to the path in droves, keen to witness a relatively short but ultimately dramatic totality.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 13 June 2026
The mosquitoes came out in droves at night, just before bed, quelling our ambitions of stargazing or watching for the northern lights.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
The trip, though, has underscored how the country of 50 million people, which experienced a religious crisis after its 20th-century dictatorship ended, still has plenty of faithful Catholics who have turned out in droves to welcome the American pope.
—ABC News, 10 June 2026
The trip, though, has underscored how the country of 50 million people, which experienced a religious crisis after its 20th century dictatorship ended, still has plenty of faithful Catholics who have turned out in droves to welcome the American pope.
—Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
And with roughly an hour to go until tipoff, there are still droves of fans outside waiting to get into the arena.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 9 June 2026
The British royal family turned out in droves Saturday for the intimate nuptials of Harriet Sperling and Peter Phillips.
—Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 6 June 2026
Fans obliged in droves, popping off their shirts and bringing a building that had stagnated into stressed silence back to the top of its register.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 5 June 2026
Yet there Knicks fans were, in droves, cheering their team on in their first NBA Finals appearance in a quarter-century.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
Jamie Carter, Space.com, 13 June 2026
The mosquitoes came out in droves at night, just before bed, quelling our ambitions of stargazing or watching for the northern lights.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
The trip, though, has underscored how the country of 50 million people, which experienced a religious crisis after its 20th-century dictatorship ended, still has plenty of faithful Catholics who have turned out in droves to welcome the American pope.
—ABC News, 10 June 2026
The trip, though, has underscored how the country of 50 million people, which experienced a religious crisis after its 20th century dictatorship ended, still has plenty of faithful Catholics who have turned out in droves to welcome the American pope.
—Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
And with roughly an hour to go until tipoff, there are still droves of fans outside waiting to get into the arena.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 9 June 2026
The British royal family turned out in droves Saturday for the intimate nuptials of Harriet Sperling and Peter Phillips.
—Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 6 June 2026
Fans obliged in droves, popping off their shirts and bringing a building that had stagnated into stressed silence back to the top of its register.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 5 June 2026
Yet there Knicks fans were, in droves, cheering their team on in their first NBA Finals appearance in a quarter-century.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droves
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After the final buzzer confirmed the Knicks' 94-90 victory over the San Antonio Spurs at Texas' Frost Bank Center on Saturday, June 13, throngs of people sporting blue and orange flocked to the streets of all five boroughs.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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All the while, Upper West Side locals walked their little white dogs and hauled Fairway groceries past the throngs, looking confused.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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The two other flocks got up fast and took off across the lake, well out of range.—
Anton Money,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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Looking for more ways to entice flocks of birds to your yard?—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2026
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Imagine combat choreographed by ants, swarms of elbows and legs scrabbling to emerge victorious.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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The government has a program to breed sterile male flies and drop swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females, which kept screwworm contained at the southern end of Panama for decades.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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According to reporting from the New York Times, the England National Team is known to draw hordes of fans and journalists during the tournament.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2026
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The venue only seats 2,600, so hordes of fans queued up for the standby list in Riverside Park before parking themselves behind bullpens.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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Initial crowds were eager to watch the twisty conspiracy thriller on the biggest and brightest screens, with premium large formats representing a mighty 48% of grosses.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
14 June 2026
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The post-championship chaos also saw people climbing traffic lights and other structures, and lighting fireworks in crowds, the NYPD spokesperson said.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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“Droves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droves. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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