overcrowd
Example Sentences
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Scott’s group ranked the Tulsa Zoo among the 10 worst zoos for elephants last year, claiming it suffers from overcrowding and a breeding program with a checkered history.
From Los Angeles Times
Both parents said they accepted the school was already overcrowded but questioned how it had decided who to offer places to.
From BBC
The housing shortage, overcrowded prisons, high drug deaths, delayed ferry and road building projects and the backlog of cases in the NHS were among their complaints.
From BBC
After Chávez’s failed coup, Flores spent hours with him at Yare prison, an overcrowded complex outside the capital, making plans for Venezuela in the new century.
"There are colleagues who have been here for four hours," said Emmanuel Gedeon Nzunzi, who drives one of the motorcycle taxis that are essential in the overcrowded and congested city of around 17 million people.
From Barron's
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