(n.) A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Manager Claudio Ranieri, captain Wes Morgan and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel were spotted at the airport, where hordes of local media and fans waited for their arrival.
(2) Among the horde assembled outside City Hall was teacher Lydia Harris, 27, who urged Boris to start “putting people before profits.” Harris, a member of the anti-capitalist collective Feminist Fightback added: “Boris has got to start helping others but then he’s lied before about rape crisis centres when he promised us money that never came.” Why march for homes?
(3) "It all started when hordes of natives surrounded the police station.
(4) Quite rightly, the appearance of the rampaging hordes of women whom David Cameron has promoted has been criticised.
(5) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
(6) Too distracted by "having it all", western women are failing to breed enough to repel the amassing hordes.
(7) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.
(8) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(9) The hordes poured in to defend her, the story went global and by lunchtime on Friday the leader of the council was having to recant and apologise, live on BBC Radio 4.
(10) From there, the Guardian's Paul Harris has filed this: As they trickled into the church – far outnumbered by the hordes of lunchtime office workers and eagerly shopping tourists outside – few expressed anything but acceptance at the once-in-the-last 600 years event.
(11) He suspects Hannibal did not intend to come this way, but was forced to avoid the lower cols to the north because of the hordes of Gauls massing there.
(12) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
(13) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
(14) The mood changes when a robot messenger controlled by Ultron arrives and mocks the superheroes, moments before a horde of raiders smashes into the building.
(15) He pointed out that, contrary to popular belief, Brussels is not manned by a gigantic horde of bureaucrats.
(16) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
(17) In Kim Jong-il he found a producer who shared his enthusiasm for the subject of invading hordes.
(18) Who knows what the country house crowd will make of the invading horde of over 2,300 ceramic river crabs?
(19) Yet this fabrication goes to the heart of the film's mission, which is to depict the German people as the last victims of Nazism whose true defenders were a band of brave German soldiers, including SS men, who fought until overwhelmed by the Bolshevik hordes.
(20) Journalists have been beaten at demonstrations and opposition gatherings have been intimidated by hordes of ruling party supporters.
Throng
Definition:
(imp.) of Thring
(n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
(n.) A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
(v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
(v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
(a.) Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A throng gathered before it and sang the civil rights "Freedom Song."
(2) According to some members of Aberdeen ’s energy sector, a group with a code of silence that would trump any Trappist throng, the North Sea is a busted flush, a dead zone of drilled-out fields with a long-term future to match.
(3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
(4) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(5) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
(6) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
(7) Spring is in the air here too: in the nearby churchyard at West Huntspill, the rookery is thronged with nesting birds.
(8) Led by the redoubtable Frances O'Grady, the TUC's stentorian No 2, a succession of union leaders and VIPs addressed the throng in time-honoured fashion.
(9) His players paraded the Europa League trophy on the pitch after securing third place here, both achievements that would normally merit acclaim, but the interim manager remained inside while his coaching staff joined the joyous throng out on the turf.
(10) As Feygin, Polozov and Volkova left court, Samutsevich's father, Stanislav, pushed through the throng to say he hoped they understood her decision to push for her own freedom.
(11) Throngs lined up from before dawn on Wednesday to be among the first to buy legal recreational marijuana at about three-dozen licensed stores , with cheers erupting when doors opened at 8am local time.
(12) In the swimming pool below us, a throng of bikini-clad women and lads in Quiksilver board shorts are drinking gaudy cocktails and splashing about, having piggy-back pool fights.
(13) At one depot, run by the UN relief and works agency, Dina Aldan, 22, is queueing amid a throng of women in black jilbab clutching her ration card along with her five-month old baby, Najwan.
(14) Still, a hero's open-top bus ride around the thronging streets of Pyongyang must surely await him.
(15) But for the moment all eyes are on New Hampshire where Santorum criss-crossed the centre of the state carrying out numerous campaign stops attended by a throng of camera crews and reporters.
(16) Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
(17) Organizers say as many as 200,000 people thronged the streets for peaceful sit-ins after police used tear gas on 28 September to disperse unarmed protesters.
(18) Recently, another group, Bright Blue, added its voice to the throng.
(19) So there are a throng of issues around identity, moderation, ranking, recommendation and aggregation which we – along with everyone else – are grappling with.
(20) From the early hours of Saturday after provisional results emerged, Kenyatta's joyous supporters thronged the streets of Nairobi and his tribal strongholds, lighting fluorescent flares and waving tree branches and chanting: "Uhuru, Uhuru".