in droves

idiom

: in large quantities
People came in droves to hear her sing.

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Domestic travel demand has been a weak spot this year, though many U.S. travelers have continued to fly abroad in droves to popular destinations like Japan and Italy. Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 24 July 2025 The videos show mountain lions, grizzly bears and bison migrating out of the park in droves. Sacbee.com, 24 July 2025 Reddit users responding in droves to the original post were invariably blunt in their opinions. Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025 For millennia, these fish darted in droves through the delta’s murky water and effectively supported the watershed’s entire food web. Moira Donovan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for in droves

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