packed to capacity
Example Sentences
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The room at the state Capitol in Salem, where the public hearing was held, was packed to capacity and a long line of people snaked down the hallway.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2023
In El Paso, Democratic Mayor Oscar Leeser warned that shelters across the border in Juarez were packed to capacity, with an estimated 20,000 migrants prepared to cross into the U.S.
From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2022
"We fear there is a tsunami of homelessness about to hit," said Hopman, whose shelter in Campbelltown is already packed to capacity.
From Reuters • Dec. 19, 2022
Staples Center was packed to capacity, the timely byproduct of the lifting of statewide COVID-19 restrictions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2021
We had arrived almost twenty minutes late, and the benches were packed to capacity.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
