In an instant, what had been a line of stragglers became a solid phalanx looming two or three times larger than it actually was.

"We'll attack the fragment ship in a solid phalanx!"

A solid phalanx of the girls we have loved and lost.

There was a solid phalanx of news media.

Cavalry cannot break into a solid phalanx of pikes until a way has been cut for them, but once in they can do fearful slaughter.

A solid phalanx of opposition is something that might be understood even in Teheran.

On they came, a solid phalanx of fighting men in tight formation, twenty ranks at least.

A solid phalanx of the toughest customers in London faced us.

He turned and there was a solid phalanx of men against him, barring his way.

They huddled closer together, the adults forming a solid phalanx before the stand of trees.