grouiller

Les rues grouillaient de monde.
The streets were just packed with people.
Ses nombreuses pattes, lamentablement grêles par comparaison avec la corpulence qu’il avait par ailleurs, grouillaient désespérément sous ses yeux.
His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
Des hordes de gens misérables grouillaient dans les rues du Londres victorien.
Hords of miserable people swarmed around the streets of Victorian London.
Les égouts de la ville grouillaient de rats.
The city sewers swarmed with rats.
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