they came in droves
they came in large groups
TRANSLATION
they came in droves = Sie kamen in Scharen --- GOOGLE INDEX they came in droves: approximately 200,000 Google hits
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From November to December 2008 people CAME IN DROVES in the Kashmir Valley to choose between pro-India parties competing to form the Jammu and Kashmir regional government.
(BBC News)
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The victory avenged Europe's defeat to the Americans at Valhalla two years ago and was witnessed by an estimated 35,000 fans, who TURNED OUT IN DROVES to see the first Monday finish in the history of the Ryder Cup competition.
(AFP News Service)
(BBC News)
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The victory avenged Europe's defeat to the Americans at Valhalla two years ago and was witnessed by an estimated 35,000 fans, who TURNED OUT IN DROVES to see the first Monday finish in the history of the Ryder Cup competition.
(AFP News Service)
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droves
noun
- a large number of people or things doing or undergoing the same thing
- a herd or flock of animals being driven in a body: a drove of cattle
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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One day in 1936, Katharine Hepburn attended a sneak preview of her latest film, Sylvia Scarlett. The reaction was not what she was hoping for. Halfway through the screening, people began to leave in droves, some of them even running out.
Hepburn fled to the ladies' room herself, where she found a woman lying in a dead faint. "My God," she gasped, "the picture's killed her!"
Origin: Old English drāf, related to drīfan 'to drive’. The original sense referred to herds of animals, especially cattle, being "driven" from one place to another. This gave rise to the noun "cattle drive." Today a drove can refer to people, although not necessarily with the sounds and smells associated with a drove of cattle.
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SYNONYMS
crowd, flock, herd, horde, mob, pack, swarm
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"Whenever Apple launches a new product, buyers line-up in droves."
noun
- a large number of people or things doing or undergoing the same thing
- a herd or flock of animals being driven in a body: a drove of cattle
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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One day in 1936, Katharine Hepburn attended a sneak preview of her latest film, Sylvia Scarlett. The reaction was not what she was hoping for. Halfway through the screening, people began to leave in droves, some of them even running out.
Hepburn fled to the ladies' room herself, where she found a woman lying in a dead faint. "My God," she gasped, "the picture's killed her!"
Origin: Old English drāf, related to drīfan 'to drive’. The original sense referred to herds of animals, especially cattle, being "driven" from one place to another. This gave rise to the noun "cattle drive." Today a drove can refer to people, although not necessarily with the sounds and smells associated with a drove of cattle.
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SYNONYMS
crowd, flock, herd, horde, mob, pack, swarm
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Whenever Apple launches a new product, buyers line-up in droves."
