serried
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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
The serried ranks of grandees, from Oliver Letwin and Philip Hammond, to Rory Stewart and Dominic Grieve, will be formidable opposition to Johnson.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019
Inspectors unwrapped them and found serried rows of bottles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
The countless dark windows serried close together like ranks of soldiers.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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