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Example sentences for "arraying"

Lexicographically close words:
arranges; arranging; arrant; array; arrayed; arrays; arre; arrear; arrearages; arrears
  1. The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.

  2. Then arraying me in a mob-cap and snowy cotton gown, the property of good Mrs. Jessup, placed me in the soft nest prepared for sojourners beneath that homely but hospitable roof.

  3. This was the feeling in all chivalric times; but St. Louis was the knight who had the merit of arraying it in the form of a maxim.

  4. They then progressed to the abbey of St. Ingilbertes, and were right joyful to learn that a number of knights and squires of merry England had, like good companions, crossed the sea, and were arraying themselves for the joust.

  5. So these joined the invader's army: but Domitius and the other senators after being censured by Caesar for arraying themselves in opposition, were released and came to Pompey.

  6. They did know that Sylvia was not one of them; but they felt sorry for her, and they enjoyed the experience of arraying her as a bride and of constituting, for the moment, a pretty and irreproachable setting for her wistful person.

  7. Facts were arraying themselves and marching before him for review.

  8. For methinks I can hear the trumpets blowing for the arraying of the tourney.

  9. And when he had come within thirty-five stades of the city, he made camp not far from the sea, and Germanus, after arming his whole army and arraying them for battle, marched forth.

  10. Then found he Nestor, the clear-voiced orator of the Pylians, arraying his comrades, and urging them to fight, around great Pelegon and Alastor and Chromios and lord Haimon and Bias shepherd of the host.

  11. Over many ranks of warriors, of horses many, sprang Aineias soaring in the hand of the god, and lighted at the farthest verge of the battle of many onsets, where the Kaukones were arraying them for the fight.

  12. Next he established himself in what remained of the palaces of his kindred, hanging the saloons with black, and arraying his retainers in the deepest mourning.

  13. Praying earnestly that God will help her in her purpose, she lays aside the habiliments of widowhood, and, arraying herself in garments of gladness, goes forth with her maids to the camp of Holofernes.

  14. One might judge from the paintings that have come down to us, which depict the form and vesture of the Egyptian woman, that she was greatly lacking both in grace of figure and in taste for arraying herself attractively.

  15. One body of brave veterans, arraying themselves in a ring on a little mound, beat off every charge of the Germans, and prolonged their honourable resistance to the close of that dreadful day.

  16. Xenophon has finely called "the soldier's arraying his own soul for battle.

  17. Although I left Germany half a century ago, I would think as little of arraying myself against her, the country of my birth, in this the moment of her struggle for existence, as of arraying myself against my parents.

  18. At the studio of Lang, a Philadelphia artist, I saw two agreeable pictures, one of which represents a young woman whom her attendants and companions are arraying for her bridal.

  19. The Indians took possession of the stage dresses, one of them arraying himself in the garb of Othello, another in that of Richard the Third, and another taking the costume of Falstaff.

  20. Accompanied by all the forces and arraying then, in good order, both of us, with uplifted weapons, are even now proceeding against Drona and the Suta's son for withstanding them.

  21. Then blowing his conch and himself urging the horses to great speed, Drona moved about with great celerity, arraying his troops.

  22. An' here ut is," O'Hagan announced, arraying the clothing upon a chair.

  23. It was soon in the springtime of the year; the earth was awaking softly from her long sleep, and was by gentle degrees arraying herself for her summer pomp.

  24. Hardly anything throws a more vivid light upon the danger of wresting texts of Scripture to preserve ideas which observation and thought have superseded, and upon the folly of arraying ecclesiastical power against scientific discovery.

  25. He went at once to Wyndham's study, and found that young athlete arraying himself in his cricket flannels.

  26. Fairbairn was arraying himself in his boating things, and greeted his friend cheerily.

  27. And when Yusuf had finished his poetry he fell into a fainting fit and he quivered as quivereth the fowl with cut throat,[FN#230] and he came not to himself save when the sun had arisen arraying the lowlands with its rays.

  28. They made fast to the anchorage-ground, and the damsel arose and donning Mameluke's dress and arraying the Forty Virgins in the same attire all walked together and paced about the shore and they were like garden blooms.

  29. The decks were encumbered with clothes-bags, and Jack was arraying himself as directed.

  30. They are made by arraying men in painful tunics, steeped in pitch, and binding them to pillars, to which fire is set afterward.

  31. They told him that he had long been expected, and after arraying him in a jeweled garment, sent by Queen Repanse de Joie, they conducted him into a large, brilliantly illumined hall.

  32. While the princess was arraying herself for her nuptials on the morrow, the old woman rushed into her apartment and announced that a fair-haired knight, evidently the promised deliverer, had slept in her humble dwelling the night before.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arraying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allocation; allotment; array; collation; constitution; deployment; disposal; disposition; distribution; form; formation; formulation; order; ordering; placement; regimentation; syntax