smattering of people

Instead, there was a smattering of people who appeared to have no place to go.

The smattering of people still in the cemetery turned away.

Usually you go out with a smattering of people.

As the curfew drew near last night, there were a smattering of people in the park.

They reached the elevator lobby, where there was a smattering of people waiting.

As opposed to when she had arrived four weeks before, she knew a smattering of people.

The Mirror's readers, the editor said, include a "fair smattering of people all the way up" the social scale.

Resigned, Sebastian glanced down at the smattering of people forming in line.

Most programs designed to insure employees of small businesses have either failed or been able to reach only a smattering of people.

Ray Allen termed the smattering of people a "come-on-down crowd."

I moved through the smattering of people, hoping to corner Adrianne so the two of us could have a chat.

The same smattering of people stood outside on the darkened street, avoiding the sight of me as if I were leprous.

But the most interesting voices were those of the smattering of people who said they voted for Mr. Bush in 2000.

There was a smattering of people on the streets, a few cars on the roads, and slowly signs of life were starting to appear.

There's a slightly uncertain pause . . . then a smattering of people join in, and soon the whole room is applauding.

When the designated moment comes, a smattering of people clamber toward their seats, as the conductor or performer does the equivalent of twiddling thumbs.

Unfortunately for the visitors, the furry bundle of electrons did not have much trouble negotiating its way around the smattering of people in the exhibition area.

A smattering of people in Holly and Fenton got only waves and smiles as the train rattled by.

Even in elite government and academic circles, only a smattering of people speak English, and Mr. Thornton does not speak Chinese.

TAKE a dozen models, one record industry executive-with-entourage, a smattering of people with indeterminate European accents, and one very long limo.

In states such as New Jersey, New York, and the rest of New England, smatterings of people who did not favor the war arose.

Her heart skipped a beat, but as she scanned the smattering of people on the sidewalk ahead-there weren't more than half a dozen of them-nothing looked amiss at all.

There was only a smattering of people on the bus: several old ladies with their hair wrapped in waterproof bonnets, a mother with a sleeping baby perched on her right knee.

Town police said they had responded this week to 300 reports of disorderly conduct, plus a smattering of people urinating in public or causing fender-benders by gawking at the Powerball lines.

A smattering of people congregated on the sidewalk across the street from St. Dominic's and waited as Mr. Dinkins and then Mr. Sharpton appeared.