elbow-to-elbow

ADJECTIVE

crowded

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cramped full huddled jam-packed jammed loaded packed populous teeming

STRONG

brimming clean close compact crammed crushed massed mobbed overflowing stuffed swarming thronged

WEAK

SRO awash brimful chock-full dense filled to the rafters fit to bust full house full up lousy with mob scene sardined sold out standing room only stiff with thick thickset tight topped off up to here up to the hilt wall-to-wall

Antonyms

STRONGEST

deserted empty

STRONG

imprecise loose

WEAK

uncongested uncrowded unfilled

Example Sentences

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People can sit elbow-to-elbow again at events with fixed seating, and sports events can take place as they did in pre-pandemic times.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

His rhymes are dense thickets of references and wordplay, gotta-keep-up puns elbow-to-elbow with nerdy pop-culture detritus, like this passage from Madvillainy’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”:

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2021

We still gathered to worship, enjoyed dinner at restaurants, hugged friends and packed elbow-to-elbow for sporting events.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2020

At big games, there can be as many as 400 Gonzaga students standing elbow-to-elbow in the bleachers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2020

At the nearby train station, people crowded elbow-to-elbow, the air filled with a multitude of voices.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

elbow-to-elbow

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