How to Use in droves in a Sentence

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  • It’s been killing birds in droves, both those on farms and in the wild.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Over the last few months, these blue blobs have been washing up on shores in droves.
    Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
  • Sure enough, Swifties were entering the chat in droves.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • At the height of the pandemic, the richest New Yorkers left in droves.
    Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Read on to see what items our readers are buying in droves this month.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Read on to see what items our readers are buying in droves this month.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • People were dying from Covid in droves, and the world was stricken with fear.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Shoppers are buying it in droves, as it’s been bought more than 400 times this month.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Otherwise, why would movie stars be flocking to the small screen in droves?
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Stars came out in droves for Saint Laurent’s spring 2024 runway in Paris tonight.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Sky watchers will show up in droves, snarling traffic to don Eclipse glasses and look up as the sun turns black.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Cold-loving fish, like Atlantic salmon, flocked to this stretch of water in droves.
    TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Each week brought a new adventure in a new city, and audiences tuned in in droves.
    Andrew Dalton, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • So far, workers are not losing their jobs in droves because of such tools.
    Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2023
  • That has all come out in droves over the course of the Seahawks’ first two games under new head coach Mike Macdonald.
    Vincent Frank, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • With more than 2,700 five-star ratings, shoppers are flocking to the jean jacket in droves.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Athena Linos mentioned that people had turned up in droves with food and clothes for the survivors of the Adriana shipwreck.
    Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Then diners arrived in droves to chow down on crab legs and prime rib while marveling at panoramic views of the city.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Teachers are quitting in droves over stagnant salaries and burnout.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
  • On the flip side, young rich Americans are fleeing states with high living costs in droves.
    Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024
  • And, once summer comes along, travelers will arrive in the City of Lights in droves to hopefully catch a glimpse of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And Disney fans love to show up in droves donning their football best for the occasion.
    Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Add to this, post-Covid-19 burnout has physicians and nurses leaving the medical field in droves.
    Dr. Ali Tinazli, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The pandemic sent customers to drive-thrus in droves and some have kept the habit, contributing to slower drive-thru times.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 17 June 2023
  • Bemused users were directed in droves to a post written by Ramses about the API protests.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The hatch brings fly fisherman to the river in droves each year, but Brooks and TU worry that a rare-earth mine in the headwaters could change that.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 8 May 2024
  • Quartz’s Britney Nguyen has more on where young workers could be applying to in droves.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 17 July 2024
  • Williams and Ohanian were just a few of the A-List celebrities who came out in droves to Paris for the opening ceremony.
    Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • The bargain hunters, for their part, have been coming out in droves to say their farewells and pick up their final batch of impulse-purchase tchotchkes.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But Miramar residents showed up in droves to oppose it, per the Herald.
    Sommer Brugal, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024

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