crowding

How To Use crowding In A Sentence

• Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
• I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
• Pediatricians are once again extremely busy this winter as patients with asthma symptoms - the most common disease among children - are crowding into respiratory clinics.
• [12] The spermatozooids of certain plants can be strongly attracted towards a pipette which is filled with malic acid -- crowding around and into it with avidity. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
• Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others? The English Is Coming!
• Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine. The Shagganappi
• Bar staff were today taking more cash than ever with fans crowding bars for the crunch clash between England and Argentina.
• Parents or guardians were surveyed using a standardized self-administered questionnaire to obtain data on crowding in the household, parents' educational level and the child's health status.
• The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
• Because of the overcrowding problems in the school I know that some children are being taught in cloakrooms.