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huddled

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for huddled.

Editorial note

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Crowded together in a huddle

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of huddled gathered in one view.

adjective

Crowded together in a huddle

adjective

Crouched.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for huddled.

Example sentences

1

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

2

But in fact, living in a huddled hunkered-down style limits your enjoyment of life.

3

My little brother, my dad and I would play it together, huddled around the keyboard and screen.

4

A number of people were there already, huddled around a boom box that was tuned to a news station reporting on the accident.

5

How are gonna not acknowledge someone after spending a winter huddled together in a barn eating salted fish and trying not to freeze to death.

6

Presumably announcing the Apple Watch is available to the huddled masses...

7

>Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

8

I feel like it was a situation where the few are in power because the huddled masses don't know that they can actually revolt.

9

It was a common sight in the field, between exercises, to see squads huddled around dirt terrain models - gaming out scenarios with the squad leader acting as dungeon master.

10

I can't shake the analogy to pictures from WW II where shop keepers were huddled in the back while soldiers fought from the front of the store.

11

Now our own huddled masses are splitting a pie that isn't growing, and immigration is not so beneficial that it makes up for the overpopulation it causes (because few people have been emigrating).

12

We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, and we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

Quote examples

1

The title is, "Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses..." With such a title it appeared to me that the article was about immigration as well.

2

We're not getting the "poor and huddled masses" that made this nation great anymore.

3

This isn't "Take Ye Up The White Man's Burden," this is "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

4

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use huddled in a sentence?

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

What does huddled mean?

Crowded together in a huddle

What part of speech is huddled?

huddled is commonly used as adjective.