serried

Example Sentences

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“The old Barnes & Noble was serried ranks of bookshelves, most sections arranged A to Z by author,” Daunt says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

There are serried ranks of wives and lovers and misfits and buttinskies and assorted hangers-on.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Washington was beginning to realize that he was not going to win the war with a grand assault against the serried ranks of redcoats.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2018

I began to fancy myself − rather confusingly − as a transgender Mrs Thatcher, propped up on my pillows by dawn's early light, and slowly working my way through serried red ministerial despatch boxes.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

The countless dark windows serried close together like ranks of soldiers.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein