crowd around/round

phrasal verb

crowded around/round; crowding around/round; crowds around/round

: to form a tight group around (something or someone)

A small group of people crowded around the car.

When one of the protesters began to speak, the people crowded around (him) to hear what he had to say.

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After entertaining the crowd around her, Rae announced the end of her act. —

Kristen Tauer, WWD, 28 Oct. 2024 The boys watch as women and children crowd around outside Qala Bakery, the only functioning bread shop in the city of Khan Younis. —

Hannah Peart, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024 There, the children crowd around a metal firepit and peer at the remnants of their last bonfire. —

Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024 The crowd around Abillama skewed young and international, with lots of French and Spanish in the air (the second official language of the gallery is French, in which Abillama and director Andrea Torriglia de Altolaguirre are both fluent). —

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei For Artnews, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for crowd around/round

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