ARRAY in a Sentence

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75 example sentences for ARRAY, such as:

1. Napoleon arrayed his troops for battle.
2. His soldiers were arrayed along the river bank.
3. There was a vast array of colours to choose from.
4. The store offers a bewildering array of garden tools.
5. The customer is faced with a formidable array of products.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARRAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
array
 v.  set out for display or use; place in orderly arrangement
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  Even with these words, turning his spear, he struck the side of the hollow hill, and the winds, as in banded array, pour where passage is given them, and cover earth with eddying blasts.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  An hundred others, and as many pages all of like age, load the board with food and array the wine cups.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
3  A sudden rumour spreads among the Trojan array, that the day is come to found their destined city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
4  Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array the flagons and engarland the wine.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
5  Tyrrheus cheers on his array, panting hard, with his axe caught up in his hand, as he was haply splitting an oaken log in four clefts with cross-driven wedges.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
6  They, where the goal of their way lies nearest, bear through the brushwood in armed array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
7  In the centre were visible the brazen war-fleets of Actium; thou mightest see all Leucate swarm in embattled array, and the waves gleam with gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
8  My father will give besides twelve mothers of the choicest beauty, and men captives, all in their due array; above these, the space of meadow-land that is now King Latinus' own domain.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
9  Kindled by such words, they take heart and rally in dense array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
10  Nor does Turnus keep idly dallying, but swiftly hurries his whole array against the Trojans and ranges it to face the beach.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
11  Hard by is Haemonides, priest of Phoebus and Trivia, his temples wound with the holy ribboned chaplet, all glittering in white-robed array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
12  Then follow in mourning array the Teucrians and all the Tyrrhenians, and the Arcadians with arms reversed.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  Camilla with her Volscian array meets him face to face in the gateway; the princess leaps from her horse, and all her squadron at her example slide from horseback to the ground.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
14  Messapus, eager to shatter the treaty, rides menacingly down on Aulestes the Tyrrhenian, a king in a king's array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
15  Right across the enormous plain stretched the straggling array, waggons and carts, men on horseback, and men on foot.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Example Sentence:
1  A glance along his bookshelves reveals a bewildering array of interests.
2  There was a vast array of colours to choose from.
3  The customer is faced with a formidable array of products.
4  As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.
5  The store offers a bewildering array of garden tools.
6  He requested to array the whole regiment on the parade ground.
7  She liked to watch her mother array herself in her finest clothes before going out for the evening.
8  They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
9  His soldiers were arrayed along the river bank.
10  Napoleon arrayed his troops for battle.
11  Two dimensional arrays are a little more complicated to use than previous ones.