Word Finder - flocked

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To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.

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People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.

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To flock to; to crowd.

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To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

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To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

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Having split, bushy ends (of bristles).

Hetairae flocked to the cities.

The Moslem peasantry now flocked to the fortified towns and civil war began.

And to it students flocked from all parts of India.

This year was a jubilee year, and crowds of pilgrims flocked to the city from all parts of the world bringing money for the purchase of indulgences, so that Alexander was able to furnish Cesare with funds for his enterprise.

Adherents flocked to him, and for a whole year Murad was engaged in suppressing his attempts to usurp the throne.

The monks cleared the forests, cultivated the recovered land, and built villages for the colonists who flocked to them, teaching the people western methods of agriculture and western arts and handicrafts.

Numbers flocked to him from all neighbouring districts, and in his settlement were representatives of almost all the tribes of West-Central Africa.

The poet Prudentius describes how, on the day of the martyr's death, an innumerable multitude of pilgrims flocked round the site.

Since the establishment of British authority the town has been thrown open, crowds of petty traders from Lagos have flocked into Illorin, and between 4000 and 5000 trade licences are issued yearly.

Young men flocked to Konigsberg as to a shrine of philosophy.

The settlers who had flocked to California after the discovery of gold in 1848 adopted an antislavery state constitution on the 13th of October 1849, and applied for admission into the Union.

They lavished money on the embellishment of their capital, Gyulafehervar, which became a sort of Protestant Mecca, whither scholars and divines of every anti-Roman denomination flocked to bask in the favour of princes who were as liberal as they were pious.

OkyO rose into notice about 1775, and a number of pupils flocked to his studio in ShijO Street, KiOto (whence ShijO school).

His fame spread through the kingdom, and students flocked from all parts of Scotland and even beyond, till the class-rooms could not contain those who came for admission.

In the 2nd century all Christendom flocked to Rome; there was a constant stream of people - bishops from distant parts, apologists or heresiarchs.

He supported all scientific enterprises with unlimited generosity, and the most famous savants of all countries flocked to Rome.

The natural consequence was that these men to the number of 30,000 flocked to the camp of Alaric, clamouring to be led against their cowardly enemies.

Russians flocked to Germany in thousands after the Russo-Japanese War and the insurrections in Russia, and the figures given for 1900 had been doubled in 1907.

Many nobles, whose lands had been wasted during the war, flocked to the little capitals to make their way by contemptible court services.

While the mountainous parts of Morocco continued to be occupied by pure Berber people, the Shluh or Shilluh, the Andalusian Moors flocked to 5 Proc. Zool.

From all sides Syrians flocked to his aid till he had 70,000 men under his orders.

Thence he went to Mecca, where on the promise of freedom many slaves flocked to him, and many pilgrims also acknowledged him.

Ships deserted by their sailors crowded the bay at San Francisco - there were 500 of them in July 1850; soldiers deserted wholesale, churches were emptied, town councils ceased to sit, merchants, clerks, lawyers and judges and criminals, everybody, flocked to the foothills.

The turning off of some 15,000 Chinese (principally in 1869-1870) from the Central Pacific lines who flocked to San Francisco, augmented the discontent of incompetents, of disappointed late immigrants, and the reaction from flush times.

Octavian obtained the support of the senate and of Cicero; and the veteran troops of the dictator flocked to his standard.

The people flocked to his standard; Bahram Cobin was routed (591) and fled to the Turks, who slew him, and Chosroes once more ascended the throne of Ctesiphon; Bistam held out in Media till 596.

There flocked to the Rand many thousands of British and other Europeans, together with a considerable number of Americans.

Diniz, who had been educated by Amyeric of Cahors, proved himself the most fecund poetking of his day, though the pleiad of fidalgos forming his court, and the jograes who flocked there from all parts, were fewer in number, less productive, and lacked the originality, vigour and brilliance of the singers who versified round Alphonso III.

Many, including the Hasidim, thereupon flocked to his standard, and set themselves to revive Jewish rites and to uproot Paganism from the land.

Siberian fur hunters at once flocked to the Commander Islands and gradually moved eastward across the Aleutian Islands to the mainland.

So many young people, indeed, flocked to his school that there was not accommodation for them in Houghton, and he had to fit up part of his house as a boarding establishment.

His retreat becoming known, students flocked from Paris, and covered the wilderness around him with their tents and huts.

In April 1501 Leonardo had only finished the cartoon, and this all Florence flocked to see and admire.

The result was that the population of Bombay increased rapidly; a special quarter was set apart for the banya, or capitalist, class of Hindus; while Parsees and Armenians flocked to a city where they were secure of freedom alike for their trade and their religion.

The people flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and homeliness of his language, the grotesqueness of his humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the court in particular.

His action was hastened by the fact that the Hottentots, deserting their former masters, flocked to the British standard.

The town is of considerable antiquity, but owes its development to the refugees who flocked from the villages plundered by the Turks in the 15th century.

Though himself a beginner, many flocked to him to learn the pure doctrine, and he began to seek some hiding-place and means of withdrawal from people."

The dispossessed Protestants escaped by sea or flocked into Ulster, where a gallant stand was made.

The Fula flocked to Fodio's aid, and in the battle of Koto or Rugga Fakko (1804) the king of Gobir was utterly defeated.

After the establishment of British rule farmers and herdsmen reoccupied districts and the inhabitants of cities flocked back to the land, rebuilding villages which had been deserted for fifty years.

His one ally was the Franciscan friar, Giovanni da Capistrano (q.v.), who preached a crusade so effectually that the peasants and yeomanry, ill-armed (most of them had but slings and scythes) but full of enthusiasm, flocked to the standard of Hunyadi, the kernel of whose host consisted of a small band of seasoned mercenaries and a few banderia of noble horsemen.

These were early astir and flocked to the polls in great glee, determined to exercise of their newly acquired rights.

The local children found this a highly amusing sight and flocked to the windows of the corridors to watch in silent awe.

In 1999 the people of Poland flocked in their millions to see two new films based on much-loved historical literary epics.

With a morbid fascination, people flocked to Kirkwall from outer areas to catch a glimpse of the devastation.

By mid morning, Widow's Way, the official town sledding hill, was flocked with sledding hill, was flocked with sledding enthusiasts of all ages.

The pads are fully lined and wool flocked with fixed arch and proper terrets.

A natural wonderland, visitors have flocked here to experience first hand the magical landscapes seen in The Lord of the Rings.

Instead of following up his victories, Abu Gemaiza retired to Dar Tama to augment his army, to which thousands flocked as the news of his achievements spread far and wide.