Example Sentences

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To protect his home from any potential embers, Mr. Papadopoulos has arrayed six garden hoses fitted with high-volume water nozzles around his property.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2020

As a precaution, the U.S. has arrayed in the Pacific a number of missile defense Navy ships, tracking radars and other elements of its worldwide network for shooting down hostile missiles.

From Time • Apr. 13, 2013

Bruce Conner also used folds in his paper: the delicate little symmetrical designs he has arrayed in neat columns, like specimens in an exotic insect collection, are derived from inkblots.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2011

Previously, Yamaguchi has arrayed wooden pieces or other earthy found objects, including stained coffee filters.

From Washington Post

If nature has arrayed herself in all the colours of the rainbow, she has not been niggardly in offering man the materials wherewith to copy them.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas