crowd around

A man drove into the crowd around 3:15 a.m.

Scout players wearing pull-on mismatched jerseys crowd around a coach who holds a card in the air showing a play.

They crowd around the towering machine as the rig starts burrowing into the dirt with a 140-pound hammer, digging into the ground with swift, strong strokes.

Around 20 cousins, making up 5 different families, would crowd around a packed-to-the-edge table to eat the most delicious Persian feast you can imagine.

Clutching the birth certificates for his 4-day-old twins, Mohammad Abu Al-Qumsan strained against the crowd around Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital morgue and screamed to see his family one last time.