serried's Usage Examples:

The Russians stood in serried ranks behind Semenovsk village and its knoll, and their guns boomed incessantly along their line and sent forth clouds of smoke.

serried ranks of the fools who put complex electronics through the washer.

serried lines like soldiers on parade.

I have now joined the serried ranks of the fools who put complex electronics through the washer.

We are told how, at a critical moment in the great battle of Sempach, when the Swiss had failed to break the serried ranks of the Austrian knights, a man of Unterwalden, Arnold von Winkelried by name, came to the rescue.

The great and the good had come from all over the world and they sat in serried ranks to pay their last homage.

Herr Hartmann, too, points out that, even if the knights (on foot) had been ranged in serried ranks, there must have been sufficient space left between them to allow them to move their arms, and therefore that no man, however gigantic he might have been, could have seized hold of more than half a dozen spears at once.

These cannot avail to vanquish the serried ranks of evil.

serried rows, like troops on parade, in immaculate garden settings.

Young, bare trees are planted in the motorway cuttings like serried ranks of upturned witches ' broomsticks.

Synonyms:

compact,

Antonyms:

distributed, loose,