Sentence examples for rank upon from inspiring English sources

When he shows rank upon rank of library users staring at screens, he is lamenting nothing.

The streetscape is relentless: rank upon rank of houses pressing on to the pavements, with narrow alleys behind.

To the west, the high peaks of the Al Hajar rose rank upon rank into the coppery sky, the empty plains half in shadow below them.

"Would that we could throw into the battle rank upon rank of young men at the peak of their fitness," he lamented.

When you stagger red-eyed out of bed to peer into the murky dawn, you will see rank upon serried rank of raw "superblock" developments, a mile apart, marching into the distance.

Before him, as before a general surveying a battlefield, a vista unfolded: rank upon rank of bottles, from the middle of the middle of the table right up to the front line--three types of vodka, Kiev brandy, Chateau La Rose, Rhine wine, and even a big-bellied flask of priestly Benedictine.

The scene in which ranks upon ranks of enemy Uruk-hai warriors march in perfect order seems like a spine-chilling tip of the computer-graphics hat to Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will".

Although he lacks any kind of skill, competence, or authority as an officer, his upper-class status and educational background meant he went straight into the commissioned ranks upon enlisting.

Most clans will have ranks upon members, just to show who is the better field soldier.

Jaxon preferred to be known as major, a rank bestowed upon him in the late 19th century after he joined the cavalry of the Metís tribe in its war against the Canadian government.

Arbiter is a fictional ceremonial, religious, and political rank bestowed upon alien Covenant Elites in the Halo science fiction universe.