The word "flocked" is correct and usable in written English
It is most commonly used as a verb to mean to quickly and densely gather in a group. For example, "The protesters flocked to the Capitol Building to demonstrate their opposition to the new policy."
The throngs that had flocked to the river Lagan on Sunday were far greater than the numbers involved in real life street fighting at the edge of the Catholic enclave of Short Strand last Monday and Tuesday.
This result gives Turkey's Kurds and the other voters who deserted the AKP and flocked to the HDP banner an unprecedented national platform from which to counter the neo-Islamist AKP's assault on Turkey's secular tradition, which has gathered pace in recent years.
In the 1840s diamond prospecters flocked here but now it is a protected area and very peaceful.
9.23am: Steve Collins, global head of dealing at London & Capital Asset Management, confirms that investors flocked to this morning's Dutch debt auction (details at 9.13am).
Republicans flocked to Binyamin Netanyahu's defense on Sunday, seizing on the soured relations between Barack Obama and the prime minister as ties between the US and Israel strain to their weakest point in decades.
It's easy to sneer at the massed ranks of enthused new members that flocked to Glasgow's SECC for the conference as zealots and zoomers and - lo! - some folk did.
Not least, such edgelands of the capital as Barking and Dagenham, from where people once flocked here on holiday.
The Parisian tradition of opiate usage reached its zenith in the 1950s when black jazz musicians flocked to Paris, fleeing the racism of the United States, and finding in Paris cheap and good-quality heroin.
Just as adult entertainers flocked to messaging app Snapchat in 2014 – especially once it launched its Snapcash peer-to-peer payments feature – so they're likely to be exploring the potential of Meerkat and Periscope.
Here's Paul (and be sure to stay for the kicker): The buzz of Washington activity was quickly resurrected on Thursday morning, as tourists, deprived of some of the country's best known sights, flocked to the reopened destinations.
In the month after the attack more than 33,000 undocumented Afghans flocked across the border according to the International Organisation for Migration – double the figure for the whole of 2014.
