Local journalists and United Nations officials said angry crowds swept aside small groups of police officers who attempted to bar their way.

I am keeping you, he said, from all your friends, but I must hear your news before the crowd sweeps you away.

Contagion caught the crowd and a sudden horned tidal wave swept toward them.

She couldn't even run to Angelina; the crowd, panicked by gunfire, swept them apart.

But before Kevin could see for sure, the frenzied crowd swept her aside like a chip of wood on a flood.

Moments later, the crowd swept past the soldiers to be reunited with family members who fled a decade of war in Nicaragua.

Then the crowd swept past Mr. Ford, oblivious to his presence, and closed in on the real celebrity.

The crowd swept into the Bastille at about 5.30pm.

A tribal crowd carrying seedheads mounted on whip poles swept by her, blue birds flashing about them.

Before Eragon could respond, the crowd swept them apart.