Explore Thronging through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Thronging meaning
present participle and gerund of throng
Using Thronging
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of throng
- In the example corpus, thronging often appears in combinations such as: thronging the, thronging to, seen thronging.
Context around Thronging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thronging
- In this selection, "thronging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seen, usually, normally, markets, museums and lhasa stand out and add context to how "thronging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about tourists thronging to eat and also seen thronging to get. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thronging" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thronging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everybody loves dinosaurs, but it's hard to admire them within thronging museums. (13 words)
The evening saw crowds thronging a Manhattan park, celebrating through speeches, dancing, and fireworks. (14 words)
By nightfall beachside streets, usually thronging with people a week before Christmas, were eeriely deserted. (15 words)
The same goes for the great increase in the number of foreign visitors thronging Lhasa during the period as well as for the number of inventions and institutions that are attributed to the 'Great Fifth', as the Tibetans refer to him. (41 words)
The king set out by river on 13 June, but the large number of people thronging the banks at Greenwich made it impossible for him to land, forcing him to return to the Tower. (34 words)
The “whistleblower” students also claimed that IIT aspirants thronging to Super-30 were asked to enroll themselves at another engineering coaching centre by the name, Ramanuj Classes paying Rs 33,040 as fee. (33 words)
Example sentences (14)
A lot of his fans were also seen thronging to get a glimpse of the cricketer.
By nightfall beachside streets, usually thronging with people a week before Christmas, were eeriely deserted.
James Brickwood’s image of a lonely State Theatre in Sydney’s CBD – all lights but no one home – was taken just before 7pm, when the footpaths are normally thronging with pedestrians.
Stating that the coming days are crucial in the battle against Covid-19, he urged people to maintain social distancing, avoid thronging markets and stay indoors.
Everybody loves dinosaurs, but it's hard to admire them within thronging museums.
The evening saw crowds thronging a Manhattan park, celebrating through speeches, dancing, and fireworks.
There may be something a little uncomfortable about tourists thronging to eat and sleep in peasant dwellings.
With the administration relaxing the restrictions, hundreds of men and women were seen thronging the streets to buy meat and other essential items for the festival.
Dignitaries from all walks of life have been thronging the palace to felicitate with the monarch on his birthday.
The demand to “Find Funding First” — seen on signs hoisted by teachers thronging the Capitol — is spot on.
The photo — depicting thousands of haggard-looking civilians thronging the ruins of their neighborhood as they waited for a food handout — drew parallels with the Warsaw ghetto, even in the Israeli press.
The “whistleblower” students also claimed that IIT aspirants thronging to Super-30 were asked to enroll themselves at another engineering coaching centre by the name, Ramanuj Classes paying Rs 33,040 as fee.
The king set out by river on 13 June, but the large number of people thronging the banks at Greenwich made it impossible for him to land, forcing him to return to the Tower.
The same goes for the great increase in the number of foreign visitors thronging Lhasa during the period as well as for the number of inventions and institutions that are attributed to the 'Great Fifth', as the Tibetans refer to him.
Common combinations with thronging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thronging the 6×
- thronging to 3×
- seen thronging 2×
- thronging with 2×