Read full poem →Faith, let the modest matrons of the town
Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down. 50
Dictionary Entry
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
In a Sentence
“After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. crowdscrowds largecrowds greatcrowds hugecrowds cheering
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “crowds”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To do the honours, and to give the word;
Tell at your levee, as the crowds approach,
To whom to nod, whom take into your coach,
Read full poem →Deign to be loved, and every heart subdue!
What nymph could e'er attract such crowds as you? 70
Not she whose beauty urged the Centaur's arms,
Read full poem →And thou shalt live, for Buckingham commends,
Let crowds of critics now my verse assail,
Let Dennis write, and nameless numbers rail:
Read full poem →Pleased to behold the earnest of a god. 10
But hark, what shouts, what gath'ring crowds rejoice!
Unstained their praise by any venal voice,
Read full poem →To guard your steps securely up, where streams
A faery moonshine washing pale the crowds
Of pointed stars. Remember not whereby
Read full poem →And Horace patiently its stroke does take,
As he crowds in he whipt him ore the pate
Like Pembroke at the Masque, and then did rate.
Read full poem →They are mine, the crowds of people at a Fourth of July
basket picnic, listening to a lawyer read the Declara-
Read full poem →Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char.
Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view
The ghastly body swaying in the sun