flocked

verb

past tense of flock
as in crowded
to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers vacationers flocked to the towns along the shore in order to escape the August heat

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Recent Examples of flocked But in the late 1970s, the country followed other nations in outlawing marijuana, and chased away the hippies who had flocked to the country. — ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 Roth hopes to immortalize the guy who drives around neighborhoods in that musical ice cream truck, the one kids have flocked to ever since wheels were invented. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026 On Friday morning, pro wrestling die-hard fans flocked to the Convention Center for autographs and merchandise. — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Lifeguards across the state have made thousands of rescues over the last few days as people have flocked to the coast to escape a long summer heat wave. — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 Yet American students and scholars flocked in droves to theory, perceiving in its recondite abstractions a thrilling new way of understanding the world—even, some believed, of changing it. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 Based in the western Paris suburbs, the seven-year old company hasn’t attracted blue-chip venture capital investors or star engineers that have flocked to buzzy startups like Mistral AI. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 Hundreds of teens soon flocked to a site downtown and fights broke out by the end of the night. — Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 25 July 2026 This beachside escape from my already beachy hometown of Naples, Florida, was a welcome respite from the intense crowds that flocked to the Gulf like a pack of seagulls on a stray French fry. — Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flocked
  1. crowded
  2. invaded
  3. thronged
  4. swarmed
Verb
  • Train stations in Morocco’s capital, Rabat, and in the country’s largest city, Casablanca, were crowded with people trying to travel to the border with Ceuta.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Listeners crowded her Thursday Airbnb set all the way from the stage into the street.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of crowded
Verb
  • Many invasive plants have invaded natural areas from gardens.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • None of Argentina’s players had been born when the country’s military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas in 1982, holding the islands for 73 days before British forces recaptured them in a war that killed 649 Argentine and 255 British troops.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Definition of invaded
Verb
  • Over the past two days crowds have thronged the central mosque where coffins containing the bodies of Khamenei and several of his family members were placed on display.
    — Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Khomeini's funeral saw chaotic scenes as millions thronged his mourning ceremony and trip to the cemetery.
    — NASSER KARIMI, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026
Definition of thronged
Verb
  • The challenge was to see how many passes each team could complete before they were dispossessed as opponents swarmed all over them.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • And when the sun went down again the clouds were pink and then blue and then darker, and stars swarmed in.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
Definition of swarmed

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