(v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
(v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
(v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(3) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(4) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
(5) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(6) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(7) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(8) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
(9) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(10) What are New York values?” he asked the crowd, alluding to Cruz’s vague denigration of those “liberal” values in a January debate.
(11) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(12) "This crowd of charlatans ... look for one little thing they can say is wrong, and thus generalise that the science is entirely compromised."
(13) Fred had to be substituted to shield him from the crowd’s disdain.
(14) There is a picture, drawn by Polish cartoonist Marek Raczkowski: a crowd of people demonstrating in the street, carrying aloft a big banner that simply reads "FUUUCK!''.
(15) African children had significantly fewer prevalences of distal bite, lateral crossbite and crowding than Finnish children did.
(16) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
(17) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
(18) Cliff's choice of opening a cappella number for the centre court crowds was inspired: Summer Holiday.
(19) "This is a government that has gone out of its way to not only keep crowds away but pass the measures no matter what.
(20) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
Jostle
Definition:
(v. t.) To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.
(v. i.) To push; to crowd; to hustle.
(n.) A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference.
Example Sentences:
(1) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
(2) With so many superfoods jostling for attention in the media and on supermarket shelves, it’s not always easy to separate the fad from the genuinely healthy.
(3) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
(4) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
(5) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(6) Chimpanzees copy the dominant male in behaviours that are seen to work, which is perhaps why – again, with apologies to chimpanzees – the White House press corps spent Trump’s first press conference the other week jostling needily for attention, adopting a noticeably brasher tone as they called out their questions, and allowing the weaker of their number to be bullied by the dominant male.
(7) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
(8) It became clear at some point between the exhibition packed with people (mid-week) politely jostling each other to examine the tiny fragments of a culture that disappeared over a thousand years ago and the gift shop mugs and tea cloths depicting charts of the seas – North, Baltic, Atlantic – across which the Vikings sailed.
(9) Manchester City have elbowed Bayern Munich and Liverpool out of the way as the three clubs jostle for position at the head of a queue forming for Schalke’s Leroy Sané , the German international winger who would cost up to £40m.
(10) He also wins a little jostle with Lehrer: Lehrer : Your two minutes is up, sir Obama : I had five seconds before you interrupted me Obama also wraps up Massachusetts' Romneycare in an embrace, but Romney neatly turns it around and accuses Obama of ignoring bipartisanship, which he ahd embraced as governor, as well as making various accusations, the most off-beam of which was saying: "We didn't cut $716m from Medicare, we didn't have Medicare."
(11) The two jostled over who was the closest to Israel, with Romney berating Obama for failing to visit Israel during a Middle East tour.
(12) The stoning ritual, in which worshippers jostle for position to take aim at the pillars, has been the scene of seven similar incidents over the past two decades.
(13) Law accused Nauru's president, Baron Waqa, of acting in contempt of court and said he was jostled and pushed by his arresting officer.
(14) He later left the court amid angry jostling between the two legal teams after a defence lawyer accused Akram Sheikh, the special prosecutor in the case, of issuing threats in private against his adversaries.
(15) There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles.
(16) At the close of the session, hundreds of MPs were seen jostling for taxis outside the Reichstag building, impatient to return to their interrupted summer holidays and hoping that they were free of the Greek crisis for the time being.
(17) Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans, and today its 50 million inhabitants jostle for space among the crumbling forts and cemeteries of those who sought to subjugate them in the past.
(18) All outfield players jostle on the edge of the area, bar Assou-Ekotto, who swings one into the far post.
(19) Republican hopefuls jostle for limelight in TV debate as Trump's shadow looms Read more Two more debates will be held in either February or March – one in Miami as a cooperative effort with Univision and the Washington Post, and one in Wisconsin held with PBS.
(20) Most nights of the week, Isaac will make a two-hour round trip to a Nigerian border town, jostle his way to the front of large crowds at fuel stations and return with enough fuel to fill up four 4x4s.