What is "massing"

Usage examples of "massing".

Also, he froze large forces in Norway, the Balkans, Denmark, and the south of France to ward off possible landings, instead of massing all these near the Channel coast.

United States and Britain began massing forces in the region, but almost immediately Arab and European governments began to distance themselves from Washington and London.

The vast array of coalition sensors trained on Kuwait had failed to detect the preparations for the Iraqi attack even though it included the massing of the Iraqi Third Armored and Fifth Mechanized Divisions in southern Kuwait.

Men, women and children are massing outside, a living circle close packed for protection.

But now the space-suited warriors of the horde, guided in their hiding by their own visirays, were massing there.

Close-up jostled shots of thousands of people outside a stadium after a Goebbels speech, people surging, massing, bursting through the traffic.

Minister of Defense, in charge of the Regan N1 tary forces currently massing to strike at the Sassan Empire.

The Mag Comm ran a count of the massing Regan fleet orbiting the Regan capital, and found no vessels missing.

Each front yard had things growing in it, but such subdued blossomings and unobtrusive planting that they could easily have been only accidental massings of natural vegetation.

She had seen, and even organized, too many such massings, and she had hoped never to see another.