Sentence examples for droves from inspiring English sources
"droves" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English
It is usually used to describe a large number of people or animals traveling together – usually in a disorganized fashion. Example sentence: Tourists arrived in droves to the popular beach destination.
Families who have been processed and released to join relatives while they wait for their court hearings still arrive in droves at the Sacred Heart Catholic church hall in downtown McAllen clutching A4 manilla envelopes containing official notices about their cases.
But I can't understand why leftwing feminists have not come out in their droves to condemn Miliband for going anywhere near Russell Brand.
The party will also expect to increase its overall Dáil representation as it hopes to harvest votes from disgruntled Fianna Fáil supporters, who are going to abandon the Soldiers of Destiny in their droves as punishment for Brian Cowen's mishandling of Ireland's fiscal woes.
Lord Tebbit, the veteran Tory Eurosceptic and former party chairman, tore into the prime minister, warning that people would leave the party in droves.
Over three days in south Wales, I talk to droves of people, but the most I can get by way of an endorsement of Labour is sighing acknowledgements that people vote for the party thanks to family traditions, or simple habit.
And with the average age of the Mrs Brown TV viewer believed to be around 50, the audience didn't suggest itself as one apt to leave its sofa in droves for the multiplex.
Paramedics and ambulance personnel are leaving their jobs in droves.
The YMCA started the shelter in the 1990s when young children like Parvinder were flooding into the city in droves.
Yet I suspect that most of the same people are much more comfortable with the idea of that taxpayer money kicking in (and in droves) at the age of four.
Nigel Farage was right when he declared that its main aim was to recapture the Ukip vote, which has deserted the Tories in droves of late.
To be entirely truthful we didn't flock to those games in the numbers that present-day scaremongers cite (Melbourne ODIs were lucky to pull 60,000 by the early 90s) but the pyjama game certainly ruled the TV ratings and by comparison with recent fixtures, we attended in droves.
