PHALANX in a Sentence

Learn PHALANX from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for PHALANX, such as:

1. Keep your fingers from that bitter phalanx of vials.
2. A phalanx of guards stood outside the prime minister's home day and night.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHALANX
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phalanx
 n.  compact or close knit group of people, animals, or things
Classic Sentence:
1  Keep your fingers from that bitter phalanx of vials.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
Example Sentence:
1  A phalanx of guards stood outside the prime minister's home day and night.