Thesaurus results for THRONGED

thronged

verb

past tense of throng

as in flocked

to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers fans thronged the field to celebrate the win

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Recent Examples of thronged Cornell students, professors and others thronged a campus plaza Monday to protest the university’s response to the matter. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 The homes of most other celebrities aren’t thronged by adoring fans, certainly not half a century after their deaths. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 Glass chronicles the chaos as home buyers thronged into tracts without schools, sewers, trash removal, or viable tax bases. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Following the advice of food bloggers and influencers, overzealous visitors have thronged a rifugio (refuge) in Italy’s Val di Fassa valley, all because of this traditional pastry. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 Tens of thousands thronged Tiananmen Square and surrounding streets in Beijing in 1976, after the death of Zhou Enlai, the People’s Republic’s first and widely respected premier. — Reuters, NBC news, 18 Aug. 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 Mourners thronged a vast prayer complex in Tehran on Saturday as the week-long funeral ceremonies of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began with the national anthem, religious eulogies and readings from the Koran. — Reuters, USA Today, 4 July 2026 No matter the weather, no matter the season, for over four decades, folks in Nashville have thronged to The Picnic Cafe. — Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 27 June 2026

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Instead, as would later happen in Kansas and Nebraska, slaveowners and Southern sympathizers on the one hand and abolitionists and Free-Soilers on the other all flocked to California to try to tip the political scales in their favor.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
This year, audiences flocked to features by filmmakers who cut their teeth on online shorts, like Curry Barker (Obsession), Kane Parsons (Backrooms) and Markiplier (Iron Lung).

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026

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The building was under construction on a busy commercial street in the Eastleigh area, which is often crowded with thousands of traders and residents.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Mythical beings hover over apocalyptic scenes crowded with tiny, ghostly figures, which seem to emerge from the paint.

— Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

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