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HUDDLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Crowded or massed together
Example:
the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind
Classified under:
Similar:
crowded (overfilled or compacted or concentrated)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb huddle
Context examples:
The door opened, and the five men, standing huddled together just inside, pushed one of their number forward.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was making my way through this at a point which was just out of sight of my companions, when, under one of the trees, I noticed something red huddled among the bushes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I can see him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble man.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three dead men lay huddled together in front of them: while a fourth, with the blood squirting from a severed vessel, lay back with updrawn knees, breathing in wheezy gasps.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Well, we may save the police some little trouble in that direction,” said Holmes, glancing at the haggard figure huddled up by the window.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the middle of the floor of the empty room was huddled the figure of an enormous man, his clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its contortion and his head encircled by a ghastly crimson halo of blood, lying in a broad wet circle upon the white woodwork.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his breast, like one who is utterly crushed.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were two men that loved her, and one that she loved, and you’ll smile when you look at this poor thing huddled before the fire, and hear me say that it was for my good looks that she loved me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
