Example Sentences

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As the deadline passed, troops were massing around the Gaza Strip.

From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2023

As the clock ticked on the ultimatum, hundreds of thousands of Israeli army reservists were massing near Gaza’s northern border.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Johnson said Putin made the remarks during a “very long” and “most extraordinary” call in early February last year, as Russian troops were massing along the Ukraine border.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023

A sense of normality has also come to the capital, Kyiv, just two months after Russian tanks were massing on its outskirts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022

There was smoke, clatter, mud, and confusion, as if an army were massing for an assault on Chicago.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson