Once again crowds stampeded, cashing in gift certificates that the shops had sold.

Suddenly a shot rang out, and the crowd stampeded.

She could see boots going by, and the helmet juddered as the crowd stampeded across it.

The crowd stampeded so completely that the street was cleared like magic.

The panic-stricken crowd stampeded for the nearest doorways, trampling the woman who was shot and two others who fell.

If memory served me well, people had been trampled to death in this doorway when the crowd of gamblers stampeded for the exits.

And then the crowd, already on an emotional hairtrigger, broke and stampeded.

The crowd screamed and stampeded, spilling into side streets.

Twenty-one other people, including the suspected gunman, were hurt when the police opened fire and the crowd stampeded.

After picking at lunch, the crowd stampeded the dessert buffet.