He was met by a throng of journalists and photographers.
Extra Examples
She was lost in the throng.
Shopkeepers were closing up and joining the throng in the streets.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
assembled
gathered
verb + throng
join
preposition
among/through the throng
in the throng
into the throng
…
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Word OriginOld English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.
throng
verb
/θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
[intransitive, transitive](literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they throng
/θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
he / she / it throngs
/θrɒŋz/
/θrɔːŋz/
past simple thronged
/θrɒŋd/
/θrɔːŋd/
past participle thronged
/θrɒŋd/
/θrɔːŋd/
-ing form thronging
/ˈθrɒŋɪŋ/
/ˈθrɔːŋɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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to go somewhere or be present somewhere in large numbers
+ adv./prep.The children thronged into the hall.
throng to do somethingPeople are thronging to see his new play.
throng somethingCrowds thronged the stores.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryThrong is used with these nouns as the subject:
crowd
Throng is used with these nouns as the object:
square
street
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Word OriginOld English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.