David Rakoff

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.

Canadian Writer

Saint Augustine

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Saint

Kate Christensen

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

American Novelist

Walter Scott

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Scottish Novelist

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

American Poet

Benjamin N. Cardozo

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

American Judge

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Use 'throng' to describe big crowds, emphasizing their density and number.

Large Gatherings

'Throng' doesn't indicate familiarity among the people, just their presence together.

Impersonal Feel

'Throng' often suggests a slightly chaotic or disorganized group.

Slight Chaotic Sense

As a verb, 'throng' involves movement and often suggests action - going to a place in large numbers.

Action and Movement

When using 'throng' as a verb, it often refers to a temporary action, not a permanent state.

Temporary Activity

'Thronging' suggests an unplanned or spontaneous coming together of people.

Spontaneous Assembly

 The whole operation requires weeks of strict planning, liaising with the other camps in her domain, strategic delegation – and the patience to move at the speed of dawdling animals. Today is moving day, and she’ll have to direct throngs of her ladies, commanders, slaves and animals

A day in the life of a...

 swarm of your favorite food just opening your mouth and letting it leap in that's life from these playful Galapagos penguins in the waters off the Galapagos Islands the penguins drive the anchovy swarm into a shoal of shallow water bunching the throng even tighter making

Penguins vs. Pelicans PIPE...

 we can only imagine how residents of Alexandria thronged the harbor to marvel at the arrival of this majestic, floating castle. This extraordinary vessel was the Titanic of the ancient world, except without the sinking, thanks to our pal, Archimedes.

The real story behind...

 When the temple is complete, throngs will gather on its perimeter— offering prayers, performing sacrifices, and pouring libations for the goddess of wisdom. Pheidias spends the rest of the day designing finishing touches for the statue,

A day in the life of an...

 And Chris Hughes strode into the middle of the throng with his weapon above his head, pointing at the ground, and he said, "Kneel." And these huge soldiers with their backpacks and their body armor,

Fighting with...

 from the supermarket the entire community gathers to celebrate in return everyone escorts him home neighbors join the throng his achievement is there by respecting tradition and prevailing over

Male Circumcision PIPE...

 the entire community gathers to celebrate his return everyone escorts him home neighbors join the throng his achievement is their achievement by respecting tradition and prevailing

Circumcision PIPE National...

 one of the highest concentrations anywhere on the skin. Lurking in this throng of microorganisms are species of Corynebacteria, Staphylococci, Micrococci, and others.

What causes body odor? -...

 as the old male approaches he knows from experience that the nearer the center of this intimidating throng the more

Flying With a Dinosaur!...

 well deserved victory lap to the cheers of the throng