serried
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of serried
Example Sentences
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The halves hang on clothes hangers in serried ranks, like clothes at a dry cleaners.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023
“The old Barnes & Noble was serried ranks of bookshelves, most sections arranged A to Z by author,” Daunt says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
At first the police clustered in a serried square; then they chased the anarchists on bikes down an empty street.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
I began to fancy myself − rather confusingly − as a transgender Mrs Thatcher, propped up on my pillows by dawn's early light, and slowly working my way through serried red ministerial despatch boxes.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015
The countless dark windows serried close together like ranks of soldiers.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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