popular crowd

Example Sentences

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For the first time in his high school career, he’s as uncomfortable as the popular crowd has made it for Andie every day of the last four years.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

It was considered a monumental advance in comics because Peter Parker was an ordinary teenager, like many of the readers of “Spider-Man,” who struggled in school to be noticed by the popular crowd.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2018

And if there’s one thing that this divided country agrees upon, it is that the outsider is far more likable than the popular crowd, the loner more authentic than the mainstream elite.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2017

I first heard the story in 1984, when I was a skinny kid trying to join the popular crowd at Berkeley High School.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

The paper chain may have changed us, but I don’t think I’m ever going to make it into that popular crowd.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman