Xia's quarters were too small for such a number but a crowded party is the best kind.

The thought-streams of the whole crew blended, coalescing and separating like partial conversations at a very crowded party.

The papers are full of seemingly random murder: Boys open fire on a crowded party because the chaperon won't let them in.

Since when did a noisy, crowded party become a trial by fire.

A week later, they went out for their first date, which ended with them dancing to disco music at a crowded party in Greenwich Village.

She'd vanished like smoke in the middle of a crowded party arranged for her benefit.

"Or going to some crowded party," she said.

"I saw her across the room at a crowded party," Gordon said.

She'd only met him once, for just a moment or two at a crowded party... five, six years ago?

The second was that crowded parties tended to be uncomfortable affairs for her.