massed
Example Sentences
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A day before that incident, hundreds of masked protesters massed in Dover, further east, briefly blocking access to the town's busy Channel port to demonstrate against migrant crossings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Playing on the title, it opens with a big gospel organ and a massed chorus, before a handbrake turn into lip-smacking rap.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Among the U.S. servicemembers massed near the berm between Saudi Arabia and Iraq was Mark Hertling, a pensive Army major on his first combat deployment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
A Yemeni military official told AFP that some 15,000 Saudi-backed Yemeni troops were massed in a border area but had not yet received orders to tackle the separatists.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
We don’t know the target yet, but we know the Luftwaffe’s got a few thousand aircraft, fighters and bombers, massed in fields along the coast of France.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
