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How to use overcrowd in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb

Overcrowd means to fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information. Example: “It is essential to keep the numbers down to avoid overcrowding.”

Examples of overcrowd by meaning

verbTo fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

  • The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19

More sentences with overcrowd

  • It is essential to keep the numbers down to avoid overcrowding.From the entry keep down
  • Due to overcrowding, the train network is experiencing very long dwell times.From the entry dwell time
  • The deinstitutionalization of minor offenders helps reduce prison overcrowding.From the entry deinstitutionalization
  • Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.2023 June 7, Charles Hugh Smith, Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023. From the entry hierarchy
  • This can (and does) result in overcrowding at off-peak times and near empty trains at 'peak' hours.2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42. From the entry off-peak
  • They flee from planetary destruction, war, or just from overcrowding and ecological crappitude.2008 May 16, Charlie Jane Anders, “Science Fiction Is The Literature Of Refugees”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022. From the entry crappitude
  • For London, Beeching decries the low fares, resulting in an inability to justify investment in capacity enhancement despite severe overcrowding.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 47–48. From the entry decry
  • Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding?2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 244. From the entry cram
  • To prevent overcrowding on the subways, Dr.2009 May 1, Susan Dominus, “In 1918 Flu Outbreak, a Cool Head Prevailed”, in New York Times. From the entry nontextile
  • Farr concluded that overcrowding was the main determinant of high mortality from what (following Liebig) he style ‘zymotic diseases’.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 394. From the entry zymotic
  • Such rural facilities are the first line of defense in a triage system to prevent overcrowding of county hospitals, but many are under pressure.2023 January 6, David Pierson, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, Olivia Wang, Qilai Shen, “China’s Covid Surge Threatens Villages as Lunar New Year…. From the entry Zhongmu
  • Lorna liked the sudden transition from urban overcrowding to the rural isolation of Kintrawe House, but she knew it was early days yet.2015, Dave Rigby, Darkstone: The Future May Be Closer Than You Think. From the entry early days
  • A few years ago, overcrowding forced the district to split students into tracks so that some kids attended classes while others were on vacation.2006 April 15, “Our voice”, in The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California, page B10. From the entry single-track
  • “Stay tuned on the issues of overcrowding, capital plan, new schools, secondary reform, middle school reform; these are all critical issues,” Mr.2003 September 27, David M. Herszenhorn, “Behind Makeover of Schools, A Bookish 'Kid From Queens'”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Nov 2012. From the entry stay tuned
  • It was built, as far as I can discover, because the Cape Argus rightly denounced the overcrowding of the old "tronk" on the waterfront.1985, Lawrence George Green, Maureen Barnes, The best of Lawrence Green. From the entry tronk
  • It is hard to set numerical limits on the size of classes, but it is certain that conditions in California tend to overcrowd rather than undercrowd.1952, California Teachers Association, CTA Journal - Volume 48, page 51. From the entry undercrowd
  • Next to overcrowding one might almost say that the worst financial evil in the city is undercrowding, that is, when the undercrowding is taking place without a plan.1915, City Club of Chicago, The City Club Bulletin - Volumes 8-9, page 183. From the entry undercrowding
  • Climbers have warned of overcrowding on K2 — the world’s second highest mountain and one of its deadliest — after a sherpa took video of queues snaking towards the summit.2022 August 1, Emma Yeomans, Fiona Kingston, “Overcrowding on K2 as climbers queue to reach peak”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry K2
  • An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 593–594. From the entry ease

Meaning of overcrowd

  1. verb To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

Full definition of overcrowd

Questions about overcrowd in a sentence

How do you use overcrowd in a sentence?
Overcrowd is used as a verb. For example: “It is essential to keep the numbers down to avoid overcrowding.”
What is a short sentence with overcrowd?
“To prevent overcrowding on the subways, Dr.”
What does overcrowd mean?
Overcrowd means to fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

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