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• The man crowded into the packed room.
• They crowded through the archway and into the park.
• The whole company crowded about the fire.
• Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
• He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
• Crowd us and crush us.
• The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
• tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
• Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
• After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
• Athelstan Arundel walked home, foaming and raging.[...]He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
• He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[...]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[...]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
• There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
• To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
• He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
• That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
• A lackey that [...] can warble upon a crowd a little.
• 1684: That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"
• 1819: wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
• Fiddlers, crowd on.
• There was a huge crowd of people gathered around the accident.
• The crowd booed the first boxer at the boxing match.
• The tourists began to crowd round the dying man.