How to Use row upon row in a Sentence

row upon row

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  • Some charter planes took off with row upon row of empty seats.
    Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the city is made up of row upon row of temporary houses and huts.
    Fritz Schumann, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2016
  • The hilltop town is encircled by forests of oak and hazel and row upon row of vines.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • From the garden dining area is a view of rugged verdant hills traced by row upon row of vines like contour lines on a map.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In the sleeping area, row upon row of green cots stretch out, each one with a pillow, some sheets and a blanket and some towels.
    CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In the sleeping area, row upon row of green cots stretch out, each one with a pillow, some sheets and a blanket, and some towels.
    Deepti Hajela, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Large open kilns made from those very same mud bricks stand next to almost every home; row upon row of identical bricks dry in the open air.
    MarÍa Verza, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • An orange sun is setting behind row upon row of monotonous pines.
    Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Everything else, row upon row upon row of shelving and tall lockers, was hidden in shadow.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Before dawn Monday, row upon row of candles flickered beneath the frosty vines in Chablis.
    Thibault Camus, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The smoke hung low over row upon row of vines, giving the area an eerie vibe reminiscent of an apocalyptic fiction setting.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Firefighters sat in row upon row, their dress uniforms - crisp white shirts and formal blue blazers - marking the solemn occasion.
    Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Earlier this year, a massive printer oozed out row upon row of gray, toothpastelike ribbons of mortar that have hardened into walls.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2021
  • On Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees.
    Gabriel Popkin Audra Melton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Anteaters play their matches at a dedicated esports arena, a large space filled with row upon row of computer stations.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Arlington is filled with row upon row of those who defended Jefferson’s freedom flames but who remain unknown to the world at large.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • The audience rises in row upon row upon row, a tsunami glittering with 2,000 eyes.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2021
  • After William dies, the camera reveals row upon row of machines building Dolores-Charlotte’s army of hosts.
    Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 June 2022
  • In the covered market there is row upon row of stalls selling everything from meat to soft cheese (a very popular ingredient in Uzbekistan).
    Tom Bouchier Hayes, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Pelindaba Lavender Farm, with 25 acres in the middle of the island, showcasing row upon row of the fragrant, vibrant herb.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 14 July 2022
  • Markets usually attract elbow-to-elbow crowds to row upon row of ornament and food sellers, foot traffic that spills over into revenue for surrounding hotels and restaurants.
    David McHugh, Emily Schultheis, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021
  • In many ways then, there is nothing remarkable about the village of Sonigama, a collection of mostly mud-and-timber buildings surrounded by row upon row of sugar cane and paddy fields.
    Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Blow up your Instagram with photos of row upon row of vibrant red, pink and yellow giant Tecolote ranunculus, a showy flower native to Asia.
    Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The accompanying clip shows row upon row of flower arrangements arrayed on the floor after BID workers carefully removed them from the bridge and packed them in plastic bins.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
  • New aerial photos of the Gaza Strip have laid bare the magnitude of the destruction in the enclave, showing row upon row of shattered buildings interspersed with mounds of rubble and huge tent encampments.
    Rebecca Shabad, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At a sprawling open-air market near the Black Sea, shoppers duck in and out of rusting shipping containers that have been converted to makeshift army surplus shops, scanning row upon row of uniforms, boots and tactical gear.
    Ed Flanagan, NBC News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The eloquent solemnity of row upon row of new gravestones in a Wuhan cemetery strikes a plangent chord as Wang reflects on authoritarian leaders using national crises to push through autocratic measures.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
  • That data center, holding row upon row of refrigerator-size racks of servers filled with rows of silicon chips, consumed huge amounts of electricity, outstripping the yearly power usage of more than 6,000 American homes.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Earthrise’s proposal has sparked an outcry from neighboring residents about the impact row upon row of solar panels will have on the environment and the largely agricultural landscape in Green Garden, Manhattan and Wilton townships.
    Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026

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