squashed like sardines
squashed in like sardines ,packed in like sardines
packed like sardines

In addition, people were standing against the walls, packed like sardines.

Between 400 and 600 people who had been packed like sardines were able to escape.

I am surprised it did not take six; you must have been packed like sardines.

They walked over to the mass of dancers who were packed like sardines.

Projects were packed like sardines but the information content was enormous!

Occasionally, a bus just doesn't come and, as a result, the next one is packed like sardines.

Frozen, stacked one on top of another, packed like sardines.

She pushes to find standing room among the passengers packed like sardines.

At the start everyone was packed like sardines against waist high metal barriers.

We were packed like sardines into row, and there was almost no possibility of leaving your seat during the meeting.

The mob on the other side was packed like sardines, all of them waving and shouting.

Almost all the men were wounded, who had been packed like sardines into trucks or trailers.

We’re packed like sardines on the platform, but it’s never easy.”

This is true for sufficiently large n since the lions will be packed like sardines and have no room to escape.

To the troops, packed like sardines in the trucks, it had been a nightmarish ride.

Vaguely she wondered who had coined the phrase 'packed like sardines'.

In the "garage", between 150-160 people were "packed like sardines" and the heat was unbearable.

Now the scene changes and instead of seeing the schoolhouse comfortably filled we see children packed like sardines in a box.

It's far worse than anyone imagined: one in four people behind bars are packed like sardines into cramped cells.

Inside, the crowd - about 5,000 more than the usual all-ticket limit - were packed like sardines.

On either side of the human chain an infinite variety of cars were packed like sardines.

“They don’t have an image of illegal immigrants packed like sardines into houses.”

That being so we can't allow everyone in here, it wouldn't be long before we'd be packed like sardines.'

Packed like sardines between the boundaries are 51 one-bedroom apartments and 30 two-bedders.

Oiled vacationers lay packed like sardines on the blistering sand.