1.   Holiday-makers crowded the beaches.

2.   A string of elaborate four- and five-star hotels crowd the beach, their balconies towering over the azure sea.

3.   The roads to the elbow of Cape Cod in Chatham were closed, but people crowded the beach to look at the hurricane flag, a local rarity.

4.   They were crowding the beach, and, at dusk, the bass began slashing through their ranks.

5.   When the woman came out of the water, she said she found the beach too crowded during peak hours and was desperate for a swim that night.

6.   Elsewhere, there is a scramble to fill those jobs before the beaches become crowded with summer sunbathers.

7.   In the Adriatic port city of Durres, hundreds of people crowded a beach in hopes of getting passage west.

8.   In the Adriatic port of Durres, hundreds of people crowded a beach in hopes of getting passage west.