Sentence examples for massed behind from inspiring English sources

The police massed behind their shields, clutching their batons, but did not strike.

Photographers stood massed behind barriers patrolled by police, their long-snouted cameras poised, their breath rising like steam.

On Friday morning, on the street outside the courthouse, some 350 officers massed behind barricades and brandished signs expressing sentiments like "It's a Courtesy Not a Crime".

Crowds quickly massed behind police lines around the deli, a New York institution, once a haunt for comics and Broadway actors but now mostly a tourist stop.

Vila Isabel was massed behind big floats meant to evoke the beauty and bounty of Joao Pessoa, the state capital of Paraiba and Brazil's easternmost city.

Italy began as though inspired by the sight of nearly 400 of its former players, presented with commemorative caps before the kickoff, massed behind it during a rousing rendition of its national anthem.

No obvious change in the tactics either, with the Israeli defence force massing behind the ball once more.

It's a start that the law requires co-op and condo sellers to disclose a problem if asked, but the representations are hardly foolproof: Sellers can be unaware of problems in their own apartments (not everyone reacts to bedbug bites with itchy red welts) and ignorant of hungry armies massing behind their neighbors' walls.

An online "Let Dutee Run" campaign now has more than 4,000 signatures and the Indian media is massing behind her.

As Garry Wills pointed out in his excellent Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Lincoln saw that it was necessary to defeat the reactionary forces massing behind the banner of states' rights.

So the sixth line is packed behind the fifth, imitating its sound cluster precisely the way in which the Trojan ranks, packed together in battle formation, are massed one behind the other.