I. noun
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Outside the school a swarm of small children ran around shouting and laughing.
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An average-sized locust swarm devours in the region of 20,000 tons of vegetation every day.
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Bee swarms, on the other hand, evoke another sort of awe.
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But family therapists are also aware how profoundly these swarms of narratives can affect what we see and therefore how we live.
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Jaq scanned another swarm of these hybrids, on the rampage with guns and blades.
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Picked out in silhouette is a swarm , a veritable plague, of humanity.
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Thousands of individuals, each not quite as big as a housefly make up the swarm .
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Violet receives a great swarm of attention wherever we go.
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When the adventurers move from 5d to either 5c or 5e they are attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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out
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The men of St Martial's swarmed out to drive off their enemies.
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The people of Vicksburg, both soldiers and civilians, had swarmed out into the streets.
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Do you really want to risk billions of nanomachines swarming out of control through your body?
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Then the rear ramp was lowered and the squad swarmed out to set up a defensive perimeter around it.
over
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The snakes multiplied, swarming over her, binding her more tightly to the chair.
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My pursuers swarmed over into the lane and seized me.
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This summer will see 2,000 Friends of the Pleistocene swarming over the coastal range, whacking away with their hammers.
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But many disbelieving locals have stayed behind, even as technicians in plastic suits and respirators swarm over the town.
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The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution.
up
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Crowds of men and women were swarming up the front steps to the three revolving doors.
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Less than a hundred yards from the wall they swerved and re-grouped for a charge as the infantry swarmed up behind them.
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They swarmed up Parkside and boarded buses bound for Putney, shouting unpleasant things at the driver-conductor.
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He got out the cheating stick and clipped the peg, swarming up in a daisy chain of quick-draws.
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There I saw the monster again, swarming up the cruel face.
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You can't have Romeo swarming up the balcony in doublet, hose and hearing aid.
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Depositing the cat, who flattened out immediately into a gross slumber, she swarmed up the mast.
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Every day tourists swarm through the narrow streets of the old city.
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Flies swarmed around him.
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Hundreds of refugees swarmed across the border.
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Reporters swarmed the area outside the courtroom.
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Amid the barren ocean floor swarmed legions of bizarre, new animals.
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But despite their lack of education groups of children aged six to 12 swarmed around the machine all day.
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I wandered through a poverty-stricken village in the countryside, flies swarming over me under a baking sun.
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In one scene, giant grasshoppers swarm atop the Wrigley Building in Chicago.
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More and more monsters swarmed down from the glowing mountains.
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The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre.
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The cobbled beaches swarmed with seals, and there was, as well, a fine colony of otters.
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They swarmed to the back by the dozen, chucking packets of Marlboro across the rows.