But still more ruinous for them would be the displeasure of an irresistible conqueror, who, with a formidable army, was already before their gates, and who might punish their opposition by the ruin of their commerce and prosperity.
They remembered the hints which Neumann and Illo had thrown out at table, the near approach of a formidable army of Swedes and Saxons, and they clearly saw that the death of the traitor was their only chance of safety.
Octavian was advancing northward with a formidable army.
But Cinna, by means of the new citizens, whose cause he espoused, was soon at the head of a formidable army.
So attached did they become to his person, that he found no difficulty in collecting a formidable army, which for some years successfully opposed all the power of Rome.
Joannice, the leader of a barbarous people, himself more barbarous than his subjects, was advancing with a formidable army.
He laid siege to the city of Parma, at the head of a formidable army.
The old "Army of Tennessee," which had been so formidable, ceased to be a formidable army on November 30.
Mounted on a camel, and followed by a few officers, Saladin experienced the greatest dangers in his flight across the desert, and returned almost alone to Egypt, whence he had so recently set out at the head of a formidable army.
If they raised the siege, they would be placed between the garrison of Antioch and a formidable army.
The Christians looked in vain for the fleets promised by Manuel, and soon, instead of welcoming auxiliaries, they learnt that Chirkou had arrived for the third time in Egypt at the head of a formidable army.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "formidable army" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
