Sherman at once ordered his prisoners to the front, moving them in a compact body in advance, to either explode the torpedoes or dig them up.
Not a sound escaped their lips as they rode swiftly on in a compact body.
These latter suddenly spied them, and tried hard to escape in a compact body, and then Frank cried: “Forty pounds of steam!
Onward at a swinging gallop, gathering into a compact body as they rode, came the mixed band.
They are all hauled up on the beach, in a compact body.
They faced round to see the redoubtable Rogers spring out at the head of a compact body of men.
Had they been able to see the heights above, they would have noted that across the ford above the Montmorency a compact body of men was passing in perfect order, to fall upon the French from behind, and effect a junction with them.
They landed on the beach, formed into a compact body, and headed by Major Scott and some bold Highland soldiers, they dashed up the slope towards the battery.
Ignorant as they were of the number or power of their assailants, they dashed in a compact body out of the side gate towards the place where the glare of the fire illumined the darkness of the night.
Meanwhile the Macedonian garrison stood under the wall of the citadel, formed into a compact body, neither confusedly attempting a retreat, nor obstinately engaging in a contest.
The rest of his army, coming to one spot, as if they had followed some signal, marched off, in a compact body, towards Thessaly.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compact body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
