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phalanx

noun as in legion

noun as in toe

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Example Sentences

A phalanx of cops formed behind them as they started across.

A phalanx of money-changers runs between the shops, converting Pakistani rupees to Afghan afghanis to U.S. dollars on the fly.

Who can forget the indelible images of that White Bronco being chased by a phalanx of cop cars on June 17, 1994?

I was among more than a hundred protestors from Occupy L.A., and facing a phalanx of police with riot equipment.

Their carefully scripted words, examined beforehand no doubt by a phalanx of spinmeisters, were barely above a monotone.

He took office with the intention of carrying out the king's policy of breaking up the whig phalanx and bringing about a peace.

Again, how could a phalanx mount to the edge of the river bank, when it was precipitous and covered with brushwood?

What portion of the cavalry was it, then, that was on the centre of the phalanx, and was terrified by the elephants?

And what is it that brings disaster on those who employ the phalanx?Why the phalanx fails.

It remains now to compareThe Roman more open order compared with the phalanx.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to phalanx, such as: army, flock, horde, multitude, throng, and body.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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