arrayed

How To Use arrayed In A Sentence

• On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
• A fire was burning in the grate to warm the salon, and ratafia biscuits and a flask of sherry were arrayed on a side table. The Dressmaker
• You know what I mean - the big stack, lying there, staring at you, their disarrayed spines accusing you ... make them stop! Jilly Gagnon: Those Books You REALLY Mean to Get Around to Reading...No, REALLY
• The righteousness of saints, both imputed and implanted, is the fine linen, clean and white, with which the bride, the Lamb's wife, is arrayed, Rev. xix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Her dark hair was disarrayed in all directions about her head, and her icy blue eyes leered up at me from beneath a veil of hair.
• More than a dozen large eggs were arrayed around the pool, close enough to incubate, but not so close as to cook the young. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
• Hammers and anvils were arrayed in neat lines while stocky men in the background sweated over their jobs.
• She was arrayed in purple velvet.
• The movie is splendidly arrayed visually, but transforms her prim, priggish character and makes her lusty, strong-willed and far too politically progressive for her era.
• Frankly speaking, I do not believe we had ever been so finely arrayed as we were on that march.