noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stepping off the plane, the President faced a phalanx of cameras and reporters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another group was loading kit into a phalanx of jeeps.
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But if it came to a pitched battle, the phalanx of heavily armed, well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon.
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Four made a phalanx before the booth, tapping their lead truncheons, their feet splayed like a squad of riot police.
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He spotted another phalanx of flies stuck to the walls.
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She wants a phalanx of allies at her back before she climbs those stairs again.
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The phalanx of ladies drew me away from there and up a gully.
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The blast from a phalanx of heaters struck me on opening the door.