How to Use overcrowded in a Sentence

overcrowded

adjective
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  • There were the same boatloads of tourists on the canals, tour groups on Palace Square, overcrowded bars in Dumskaya Street.
    — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The brand took notes from the overcrowded beer market, where over-the-top designs catch the eye of overwhelmed customers.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Ahead of the adoption event, the public shelter was overcrowded for months.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
  • Set aside the veggies and protein (so your pan doesn't get overcrowded).
    — Christina Manian, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Doctors have warned about the risk of disease spreading in overcrowded shelters and refugee camps in Gaza’s south.
    — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The county jail, in any case, was overcrowded, and there was a statewide shortage of public defenders.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The video, Respect the City, is playing on cruise ships, on flights, and at airports, part of a larger project that began in 2018 to clean up the city’s image as overcrowded.
    — Lebawit Lily Girma, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Both are overcrowded and facing dire conditions, U.N. and aid groups have said.
    — Kayla Guo, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • And nearly half of those residents are under 18 years old, making for overcrowded schools that can’t right-size fast enough to keep up with the area’s growth.
    — Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But most poultry birds are raised in overcrowded farms with tens of thousands of other birds, with layers of feces and litter on the barn floor.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • Dog assembles Robot, and the two of them proceed to spend a wonderful summer in the overcrowded, sweaty city.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • But with about 1,300 students in a former middle school, the school was overcrowded and unable to offer some services.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Residents were told to move further south to Rafah, the U.N. said, increasing the strain of already overcrowded shelters in that area.
    — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
  • And despite its massive size, Schneider said the ship is designed to avoid feeling overcrowded.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Those detained lived in a world where spending time outside was rare, windows were barred, and quarters were overcrowded.
    — Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • The crime waves are the result of a decrease in arrests for nonviolent crime due to jails and prisons being overcrowded.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Some communities have had to deal with migrants on the streets when shelters have been overcrowded or resources have run out.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Visions of overcrowded subway cars and jammed restaurants have many Parisians declaring their intentions to flee the city.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The area, in Rafah’s northwest, was overcrowded with tents from people fleeing the assault on the city, which the Biden administration has warned against because of the risk to civilians lives.
    — Ethan Bronner / Bloomberg, TIME, 27 May 2024
  • Having a small jaw or overcrowded teeth are two reasons a new tooth may become impacted.
    — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Characters take overcrowded buses to low-paying jobs, or wake up to the neighborhood rooster crowing at the break of dawn.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • That has led to overcrowded and unsanitary cells and violence, the watchdog says.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • But Trader Joe’s stores are already overcrowded since the chain squeezes a limited number of items into small stores, many on city street corners.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Airports were mobbed, and getting a seat in the overcrowded airport lounges that are supposed to make waiting slightly more bearable resembled the vicious fray of The Hunger Games.
    — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The emergency room floor was overcrowded with the injured while medical teams struggled to provide aid.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024
  • XPeng, a start-up based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, is another newcomer to an already overcrowded market back home.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Tennessee’s law was repealed six years later, after a string of riots in the state’s overcrowded prisons.
    — ProPublica, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Most Americans chose the comfort of home testing over overcrowded testing sites.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Gaza was already impoverished, overcrowded and largely inescapable, blockaded by Israel and Egypt for 17 years.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Migrants living in the country illegally have been more likely to live in overcrowded conditions, meaning their departure would leave fewer units available.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

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