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Example sentences for "phalanxes"

Lexicographically close words:
phalanger; phalangers; phalanges; phalanstery; phalanx; phalarope; phalaropes; phalli; phallic; phallicism
  1. The king was right, there were the Lamanite phalanxes spread out upon the plain as far as the eye could see.

  2. When the Lamanites emerged dripping on the other side, they were swooped down upon by the phalanxes of Moroni.

  3. Tis there are quartered the phalanxes of the Imperial guards.

  4. Is it true the phalanxes at Tricca have risen for the priests?

  5. Phalanxes of Atlans" promises to be an excellent story, also.

  6. Phalanxes of Atlans" offered a good theory as to the whereabouts of the descendants of the Atlanteans and the Lost Tribes of Israel.

  7. The Phalanxes of Atlans" and "The Tentacles from Below" were very good.

  8. The first instalment of "Phalanxes of Atlans" was unusual.

  9. Good, as he contemplated the serried phalanxes beneath us.

  10. Beyond the river and to the south and west rise the hills, their sides and summits covered with dark phalanxes of pines.

  11. A battle consists in the charging together of two phalanxes of hoplites of about equal numbers.

  12. In this way the two writhing, thrusting phalanxes continue to push on one another at sheer deadlock, until a cool observer might well wonder whether the battle would not end simply with mutual extermination.

  13. As for "Phalanxes of Atlans," well, I simply can't get interested in it.

  14. Like phalanxes with walls of silver shields they followed each other swiftly and disappeared like a line of soldiers cut down in battle.

  15. As we watched the grain falling like phalanxes of soldiers cut down in battle a nameless sadness filled our souls as we thought: "Though every summer green the plain This harvest cannot bloom again.

  16. To this work these were prompt enough; and each side ordereth Those phalanxes that most had rate of resolutions; The Trojans and the Lycian pow'rs; the Greeks and Myrmidons.

  17. But Agamemnon, king of men, rejoiced at seeing him destroying the phalanxes of the Trojans with his stout bow.

  18. These then he left there; and where very many phalanxes were thrown into confusion, there he rushed, and at the same time other well-greaved Greeks.

  19. But them Hector discerned through the ranks, and rushed on them, vociferating, and with him followed the brave phalanxes of the Trojans.

  20. And Ajax, sometimes wheeling about, was mindful of impetuous might, and checked the phalanxes of the horse-breaking Trojans, but again he would turn himself to fly.

  21. And the Greeks, on the other side, strengthened their phalanxes within the wall, because a great work presented itself to them.

  22. Such, with the Ajaces, moved into hostile battle the dense dark phalanxes of Jove-nurtured youths, bristling with shields and spears.

  23. But Hector in turn rejoiced exceedingly, having heard his advice, and accordingly advancing into the midst, grasping his spear in the middle, he restrained the phalanxes of the Trojans; and they all sat down.

  24. But Hector quickly perceived it along the ranks, and hastened towards them, shouting; and with him followed the phalanxes of the Trojans.

  25. But Ajax[123] led twelve ships from Salamis, and leading arranged them where the phalanxes of the Athenians were drawn up.

  26. Stepping forward, he tried the phalanxes around on every side, if perchance they would give way to him, advancing under cover of his shield.

  27. The guards dispersed the mob of soldiers with strokes of the whip; and the captains of the Spartan phalanxes and the chiefs of the Barbarian cohorts soon arrived with the insignia of their rank, and in the armour of their nation.

  28. The waves rolled up in crested phalanxes that gleamed green and incandescent white ahead.

  29. He pictured, in terse seaman's words, the little schooner plunging to windward over long phalanxes of icy seas, or crawling white with snow through the blinding fog.

  30. Accordingly, in 1515, Ulric revisited the plains of Italy amid the phalanxes of his fellow-citizens.

  31. A red sun hung over the tumbling seas that ran into the hazy east astern, and they rolled up in crested phalanxes that gleamed green and incandescent white ahead.

  32. At Leuctra, Epaminondas diminished, by one-half, the depth of his men; he formed square phalanxes of fifty men to a side.

  33. New England and New York and the Great West have had actual Phalanxes before their eyes for nearly a century.

  34. We shall have occasion hereafter to show how vast and deep it was, and how poorly it is represented by the Phalanxes that figure in Macdonald's memoirs.

  35. His name is on its list of officers, and he gives an account of it in his "Recollections," as one of the two Phalanxes that issued from New York City.

  36. What then shall we say of the rank-and-file that formed themselves into Phalanxes and marched into the wilderness to the music of Fourierism?

  37. New England and New York and the great West have had actual Phalanxes before their eyes for nearly a century.

  38. The Communities and Phalanxes died almost as soon as they were born, and are now almost forgotten.

  39. The Wisconsin had the advantage of most other Phalanxes in the skill of its spokesman.

  40. We should have advised the Phalanxes to limit their land-investments to a minimum, and put their strength as soon as possible into some form of manufacture.

  41. This was one of the three most notable experiments in the Fourier epoch--the North American and the Wisconsin Phalanxes being the other two.

  42. And up through the haze like released spirits in paradise came with soft, steady motion, phalanxes of soldiers smiling.

  43. The phalanxes were ordered to advance, but some fell dead with horror as they drove their limbs against an unseen barrier.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phalanxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.