Sentence examples for was massed from inspiring English sources
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.
Scouts reported that an Egyptian force led by Murād Bey was massed on the west bank of the Nile at Embabeh, 6 miles (10 km) from Cairo and 15 miles (25 km) from the pyramids of Giza.
However, as Robert Earnshaw bore down on the goal behind which Cardiff's sizeable support was massed, after the error-prone Blake had misjudged the bounce of the ball in the seventh minute, he was wearing the red of Forest.
A herd of television trucks was massed out front, and court clerks had to trudge to work at 5 30 this morning to process the latest urgently requested documents.
A large force of South Korean troops, designated Task Force P'ohang, was massed and sent into P'ohang-dong to engage the 766th Regiment and the 5th Division.
Earlier concepts indicated a volume that was massed straight up from the street, to which some critics objected as out of place in the low-lying warehouse district, but that's been scaled back.
Troops are massing on the border.
"The rebels are massing," one officer shouted.
French forces were massing to the south.
In effect, mass privatisation was mass murder.
