You may kill them by bushelfuls, and their phalanxes are apparently undiminished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

Today, we're all dependent on distant computers all over again - namely the phalanxes of potent servers that power the Web.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

How confident do you have to be as a country to put a word like 'phalanxes' in your anthem?.    From Wordnik.com.  [When did you last think of your nose? and what does phallanx mean?] Reference

"phalanxes" of monks were wont to play upon the hopes and fears of the high-born, that Francis, if honestly desirous of consulting the glory of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

They are flanked by many large angry phalanxes of crappy times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing Workshop: What are YOU writing? | Write to Done] Reference

Myriad phalanxes of wasps had taken possession of the upper cornices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)] Reference

The phalanxes surge forward and the dust rises, muffling the war-cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Forget outflanking movements, ambushes, lop-sided phalanxes and the like!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting with two swords? I think not.] Reference

On Screens 7 and 8 were vast expanses of desert and several long phalanxes of tanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lethal Weapon 5] Reference

And, of course, these gentlemen get phalanxes of lawyers to say, well, it's not really misconduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 3, 2006] Reference

Drunks and the more obnoxious beggars are quietly whisked away by phalanxes of unarmed patrol-persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oaxaca Newsletter volume 5, No. 14: August 15, 2000] Reference

Throughout out the new, shorter route, torch runners were cushioned by torch guards and phalanxes of police.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olympic-Torch Protesters] Reference

What tact they must employ in dealing with phalanxes of laborers of different nations and imperfect intelligence!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

They were surrounded by phalanxes of huge columns, and lanterns, which hung like pine cones in this stylized forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

They held training sessions in which groups of tough young men posed as police and attacked phalanxes of protesters.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Blood] Reference

Police responded with some volleys of rubber bullets, and routed knots of fans with phalanxes of officers on horseback.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Lakers fans celebrate at Staples Center] Reference

And up through the haze like released spirits in paradise came with soft, steady motion, phalanxes of soldiers smiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faery Tales of Weir] Reference

The phalanxes were ordered to advance, but some fell dead with horror as they drove their limbs against an unseen barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faery Tales of Weir] Reference

There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly -- alleged "anarchists.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Naomi Wolf: The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State] Reference

Nature is more addicted at the North to the habit of classifying her productions and of assembling them in uniform phalanxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

Our critics simply fail to appreciate large families: but we're by no means the only Denebian family with phalanxes of progeny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damia's Children]

The rise of the salad bar, the fall of whole milk, the battle royal of margarine and butter, the phalanxes of low-fat everything!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Healthy Nutrition] Reference

Alarmed by street protests and physical attacks on their employees, bank branches now feature metal shutters and phalanxes of guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Sinking Feeling] Reference

Africa Unity Square in the city centre, were met with broadsides of teargas and baton charges by phalanxes of heavily-armed riot police.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Modern Wall Street employs phalanxes of very smart people to read what the entrails of market performance say about future stock prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World in 2030] Reference

They came toward him like phalanxes of sea birds, only to veer away, still in formation, as they sensed the unholy wizardwood of his bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

Caroline, although nothing would replace Asheville, at least you won't have to reach it through phalanxes of rabid lackeys of the evil empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [hearty oatmeal for all] Reference

As the tents were unrolled and the soldiers milled about the new camp, the Ninth Legion marched in two phalanxes from the woods on either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost King]

‘Forward!’ bellowed Philip, and the Guards lifted their sarissas and marched towards the enemy, the phalanxes of Theo and Achillas close behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Prosecutors often make big pronouncements of their investigations, and stage the entrance and exit of people suspected of crimes before phalanxes of cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota Grows, Tata Goes Mini] Reference

Because the first Empires offered no options for assigning how troops move or fight, it presented the paradoxical spectacle of, say, hoplites incapable of marching in phalanxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multimedia: Play it Again, Seti; Olympics Through Time] Reference

At present I crush men like shells, and I throw myself upon phalanxes; I put aside the sarissae with my hands, I check the stallions by the nostrils; a catapult would not kill me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference