How To Use Serried In A Sentence

  • The unspecialised common soldier, the infantryman who has stood and marched and moved in ranks and ranks, the "serried lines of men," who are the main substance of every battle story for the last three thousand years, are as obsolete as the dodo. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
  • Another moment of silence, as King Rupert, taking off his crown, held it up in his left hand, and, holding his great handjar high in his right, cried in a voice so strong that it came ringing over that serried mass like a trumpet: The Lady of the Shroud
  • In truth, there was something deliciously comic, not to say ironic, in the sight of the multicoloured carnival being paraded in front of serried ranks of the black-clad international fashion clan.
  • As we all know, because President Obama, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband and the serried ranks of the EU keep telling us, it is Israel’s obduracy which is holding up a resolution of the Middle East impasse. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Then I let my eyes range right along the serried volumes before looking back, just in time, to intercept a glance from her. GOTHIC PURSUIT
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  • Personally, I rather like those serried rows of cabbages and leeks.
  • He rounded the last group, and in front of him was the settee which formed the central portion of the front rank of the serried chairs. A DEATH IN TIME
  • Dexter stood at the back of the conference suite behind the video cameras and serried ranks of reporters.
  • This is where we come in, the pros you see seated behind the tables in the hotel conference rooms, facing the serried ranks of either depressingly empty or intimidatingly full chairs set out in rows before us. Pros at Cons at SF Novelists
  • I've seen legs of lamb rotiserried with an entire stick of butter.
  • To put young adolescents into serried rows of desks for hour upon hour is just not any way to learn at all.
  • With its serried ranks of beach brollies and ribbons of restaurants and hotels lining the seafront, it hardly seems the most promising venue for a music festival.
  • At the Tate launch, in front of the serried ranks of the world press, he's at it again.
  • We flew over the city with its serried ranks of identical grey houses.
  • There were occasions to admire the police enmasse as they marched in serried ranks to patriotic tunes from the Police Band.
  • We rush in and encircle them with serried arms, and cut them down dispersedly in their ignorance of the ground and seizure of panic. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Wherefore, though his hair be grizzled and his face marked with serried lines, he departed not the passage of arms for straight love of tourneying.
  • Dawn sees a group of hollow-eyed divers gathered on the beach in a fine drizzle, staring slack-jawed at serried ranks of white horses charging towards us atop crackling green breakers.
  • The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed milch cattle of Switzerland.
  • For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
  • With its serried ranks of beach brollies and ribbons of restaurants and hotels lining the seafront, it hardly seems the most promising venue for a music festival.
  • For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
  • The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed milch cattle of Switzerland.
  • The heart demands effort, effort to recover those distraught, terrified, agonizing, serried bundles of kin who we imagine to actually await impatiently for rescue.
  • Slowly they would pace along, enjoying the sweeter air of the suburbs, or, gardenless themselves, would stand to peep through garden-gates at the well-ordered array of geranium, calceolaria, verbena; sniffing the fragrance from the serried rows of stocks, the patches of mignonette, or the blossoming lime-trees overhead. Mrs. Day's Daughters
  • The windward side of Haleakala is serried by a thousand precipitous gorges, down which rush as many torrents, each torrent of which achieves a score of cascades and waterfalls before it reaches the sea. Chapter 8
  • After the mysterious disappearance of the world's most famous scientists, New York comes under attack from flying giant robots that land on Broadway and march in serried ranks through the city's narrow streets.
  • The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed cattle of Switzerland.
  • Even on the most dismal of wet, windy days the quality of O'Meara's stock is apparent, from the dazzling display of winter colour polyanthus and camellias to the serried rows of bushes and trees, both bare-rooted and in containers.
  • As soon as motorists get used to counting two cameras before putting their foot down, it will be necessary to install three in a row, then four and so on until the whole county is covered by serried ranks of cameras.
  • Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness, though Darwin itself is trim, its greenery coiffed, its palm trees serried in wind-ruffled ranks around the shoreline.
  • We may judge the effect from the serried assortment of military badges and other devices on Fovant Down in Wiltshire.
  • He reorganised the players in serried tiers in a vain attempt to let them hear one another.
  • It was black or dark like tar, and sentineled to the east and north by tall, dark pines — the serried spears of armed and watchful giants, as they now seemed to him — ogres almost — so gloomy, suspicious and fantastically erratic was his own mood in regard to all this. An American Tragedy
  • Round two long tables were gathered two serried crowds of human beings, all save one having their faces and attention bent on the tables.
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  • For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
  • Next to the pretty basic motel where I stayed was a shop selling and renting electric wheelchairs, and there they were in their serried hundreds.
  • Can't quite face the serried ranks of lilac-tulle-clad duchesses and hordes of merchant bankers being corporately entertained?
  • It is not serried ranks of highly cultivated flowers - it is more naturalistic, with a bit of colour here and there.
  • Archives are imagined as dusty places; serried rows of boxes, books or film canisters shrouded in a fine, grey-white cloak.
  • Now, from the window of his home in Dennistoun he can see the serried tombs of the wealthy dead in the city's Necropolis.
  • On either side of us the serried ranks of vines marched across the land, tiny clusters of grapes already evident. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness, though Darwin itself is trim, its greenery coiffed, its palm trees serried in wind-ruffled ranks around the shoreline.
  • Stolidly they sat, the serried soldiers, clean-shaven, square-jawed, looking slightly bored and, in at least one case that I spotted, rhythmically chewing gum.
  • As soon as motorists get used to counting two cameras before putting their foot down, it will be necessary to install three in a row, then four and so on until the whole county is covered by serried ranks of cameras.
  • Outside the conventions, protesters face serried ranks of armed police.
  • He proposed an intervention in central Paris that would see serried ranks of multi-storey blocks dissected with super-highways, replacing the grand boulevards of Housmann.
  • The Fat Duck's kitchen is so small that a lot of the storage is in garden sheds, lined up in serried rows outside.

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