Read full poem →Sometimes his pruning-hook corrects the vines,
And the loose stragglers to their ranks confines:
Now gathering what the bounteous year allows,
Dictionary Entry
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].
In a Sentence
“The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ranksamong ranksranks lowerranks ownranks higher
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Poetry examples for “ranks”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →See future sons, and daughters yet unborn,
In crowding ranks on every side arise,
Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Read full poem →For your sake, I would go and seek the year,
Faded beyond the purple ranks of dune,
Blown sands of drifted hours, which the moon
Read full poem →Blind with your beauty
The ranks of scorn,
Take for a duty
Read full poem →“Surely this is the most populous city of the East! What a
wilderness of people! what a jumble of all ranks and ages! what a
multiplicity of sects and nations! what a variety of costumes!
Read full poem →To an endless waking? thrones and seraphim.
Through the long ranks of their solemnities,
Sunning thee with calm looks of Heaven's surprise,
Read full poem →s Shall place beneath the stranger’s feet our isle.
a - Let Treason and Invasion join their ranks ;
. Ireland’s sons they’ll meet a fearless ful
Read full poem →autumn Session--if there were one--or in the following year. There
was a simmering in the Suffragist ranks rather than any alarming
explosion. In March, before Vivie went to Brussels, Mrs. Pankhurst
Read full poem →With hempen strands in spray--
Fallow, foam-fallow, hanks--fall'n off their ranks,
Swung down at a disarray.