Sentence examples for hold a crowd from inspiring English sources

It's hard to hold a crowd on the platform.

Ain't none of them can hold a crowd like Chuck.

He imaginatively identifies Hitler as a sort of "hypnotic" performance artist who could hold a crowd rapt for hours with his operatic rants.

With a capacity of 400, it was big enough to hold a crowd yet small enough to sustain the intimate atmosphere that stand-up requires.

No stadium can hold a crowd of 300,000 plus, yet these were the kinds of numbers that turned out for the triathlon – a million watched the first Saturday's road race.

Heading south in 1935, Bill and Charlie worked the North Carolina-South Carolina line; radio performers by day, by night they rode the bad roads to schoolhouses, churches, town halls: any place big enough to hold a crowd.

Would Hitler have risen to power without his talent for holding a crowd?

Last year, the South African-born writer J.M. Coetzee held a crowd of more than 500 in stunned attention as he read from a short story.

The meetings were rescheduled, moved from a conference room to an auditorium that held a crowd of 300 on Thursday night and about that number on Saturday morning.

Gorgeous," announced one of the many camera-wielding middle-aged women crammed behind barriers that held a crowd of about 2,000 people, awaiting the arrival of Britain's freshly garlanded world champion.

Mr. Hightower, who was there Thursday night promoting his own new book, "If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates," held a crowd of about 80 in his sway, in part by expressing opinions a long arm's length to the left of those heard from most political commentators.