Thesaurus results for DROVES

droves

noun

plural of drove

as in throngs

a great number of persons or creatures massed together people flocked to the annual festival in droves

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a group of domestic animals assembled or herded together a drove of cattle

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Recent Examples of droves The bust, however, began as soon as the early 1880s and droves of residents began to leave. — Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026 Video from The Associated Press showed protesters gathering together to push over the tall yellow barricades and sometimes climbing atop them as droves of Delhi Police stood guard in riot gear. — Connor Greene, Time, 22 July 2026 Lashlee took plenty of heat for this in the comments section, as droves of JMU fans flooded On3 reporter Brett McMurphy's post with taunts and jeers. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026 The Aragon, which later generations experienced mainly as a shabby, sticky home for loud rock music, was once the North Side’s hub for romance, where young men and women came in droves to dance to mellow music in an elegant atmosphere. — Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026 Diners who would normally not venture to this neighborhood are coming in droves for the comfortable, cheffy takes on gastropub cuisine. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026 The parkway was evacuated Saturday evening while droves of people were still in line to enter due to approaching thunderstorms. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 6 July 2026 Korea, after all, is where the term originated, and droves of K-beauty products are formulated specifically to achieve ultimate clarity, bounciness, and light-reflecting dewiness. — Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 1 July 2026 Join the droves of shoppers buying this cute henley top with a relaxed fit. — Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

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Right in the middle of cheering, reveling masses was MARTA — a connective system of veins that efficiently moved the happy throngs.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
These friends describe a large party on Horn Island, which is a favorite gathering spot in the summer, with throngs of people spread out in the sun and surf and around numerous boats, some of them drinking in water known to be deep and dangerous.

— Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

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Noun

Jurado, who represents Boyle Heights, says families have had to deal with swarms of flies, rodents and strong odors from the roughly 85 million pounds of rotten food left behind after the fire.

— Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Human control and drone swarms The drone strike kits would also enable SkyFall’s Shrike drones to receive future software updates that could enable a single human operator to command an autonomous swarm of drones to attack targets.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026

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Video shows hordes of apparently military-aged men smiling and posing for cameras, some carrying swimming flippers, and sprinting through the streets as authorities struggle to corral the unruly masses.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
This is a real neighborhood with authentic shops and restaurants, removed from the hordes of tourists near the Duomo.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of hordes

Noun

But as demonstrations attracted larger crowds, the government was forced to acknowledge them and respond to their growing influence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Once a lawyerly panel, a takeover by a trio of conservatives deeply mistrustful of the state’s voting system has turned the board’s once mundane meetings into boisterous events packed with crowds of cheering and jeering activists.

— Tamar Hallerman, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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