adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crowded (= with a lot of people )
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The streets get very crowded at weekends.
crowded
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In the summer the beaches get very crowded.
overcrowded/crowded conditions
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Families here are living in dirty, overcrowded conditions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
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Ranging around the crowded bar , his eyes settled on a group by the window.
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Pushing temptation aside, he left the casino and walked into the crowded bar next door.
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Led by the head waiter around a crowded bar we emerged into a restaurant with a breathtaking interior.
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It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar .
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Michael and Terry were sitting in a crowded bar .
city
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It snakes in and out of ports, along our busiest highways and through our most crowded cities .
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It is really a very crowded city .
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It was hot in London in July, not a good time to go sightseeing around a crowded city .
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I had a sandwich in a crowded City pub, and then went to the bank to collect Miss Macdonald's letter.
room
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Less homely than the crowded room at Dinard, it smelt rich.
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Harry looked round the crowded room .
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Perhaps it had just been the rather stuffy air in that crowded room .
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Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last, talking to Sue's dad near the window.
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As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan.
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Some one who manages to read in a noisy, crowded room may inadvertently communicate evidence as to his enviable powers of concentration.
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Boden was not among his listeners, nor anywhere in the three small, crowded rooms .
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For the years we were taking speed, we wouldn't go into a pub or a crowded room .
street
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Something which she, brought up in a crowded street , could not fail to recognize.
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Earlier eight people died when bombs rained on the city's crowded streets .
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His disguise would pass in a crowded street , but not at six inches' range.
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From their position in the hills, the forces lobbed three mortar bombs into the crowded streets .
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We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets .
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Crime, and even sedition, festered in the crowded streets .
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Visiting Stanley village, we walked along a crowded street of shops and many street traders.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close/packed/crowded etc together
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The Beastline were standing close together , silhouetted against the sky.
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The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together .
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These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together .
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They stood close together in silence, listening.
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Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
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We draw close together to complete our plans.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a crowded elevator
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It was two weeks before Christmas and the mall was crowded with shoppers.
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The train was really crowded .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind the taxis is a crowded railway station and beyond that, the port.
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But judging by the crowded platform, nobody seems to mind.
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He was given an ancient, unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings.
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Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
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My parents and Joan were on the crowded pavement near an ice-cream cart and a streamer seller.
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The steamer swings lowing through crowded waterways.
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When the population is put in the context of land size, Britain emerges clearly as a crowded island.