phalanx
Example Sentences
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Outside, under the eye of the carabinieri and a phalanx of photographers, the crowd waited.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
A phalanx of guards with full armor and riot shields watched over proceedings.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Armies have always been organized on authority—the Greek phalanx, Roman legions, Napoleon’s corps system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
A phalanx of Boldúmen, lined up ready to sacrifice themselves for the good.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
If she was a really practiced reader, she thought, each of those ideas would be surrounded by a phalanx of qualifying detail, but there it was: that was all she had to go on.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing phalanx
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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The Sea of Monsters
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Ancient Greece, Lessons 1–3
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