Sentence examples for painfully crowded from inspiring English sources

It's overdeveloped and can be painfully crowded.

Suddenly, a wide-open race for Mr. Weiner looked painfully crowded.

As a New Yorker, I feel a little suspicious when places aren't painfully crowded and I kept wondering if there was some national holiday that cleared the city, but it's just the way of life in Vienna as it is in great Scandinavian cities like Oslo and Stockholm.

On a Saturday night, the room was crowded and painfully noisy, and the servers struggled earnestly and not always successfully to keep up.

U.S. 36, the unlovely highway that connects the cities, is crowded and often painfully slow, dotted with malls, fast-food restaurants and other commercial flotsam.

Every year, thousands gather to be cordoned in by police, deprived of bodily movement by hordes of tourists and TV crews and crowded by the drunk, the cold and the painfully full of bladder.

I find that most tourists stand out painfully from the crowd either because they don't mind standing out or because they just weren't prepared.

Young fellow points out a lame old man coming toward them through the crowd, hobbling painfully.

America's forces have developed (but not used) a "heat ray" designed to clear crowds by painfully zapping the skin.

Mr. Walsh, who wore rumpled Brooks Brothers suits and could be painfully awkward in front of crowds, was one of Lehman's biggest profit producers.

Noise, jostling crowds, treacherous and painfully slow-moving traffic, lack of green, open spaces, filthy pollution, high crime rates and living costs, and social anonymity are some of the factors city dwellers say make them uneasy.