The pirates would not dare approach until they got into a solid formation, and by that time we'd have our landing.
This solid formation was prudent, but did not remove all danger.
As the name implies, the Stonewall setup is a solid formation which is hard to overrun by force.
The major challenge to what would otherwise be a solid black formation was Prasad's attack with 16 P-B5.
The steel-clad knights rode in a solid formation, banners in line as on parade.
Each column was a solid formation of men aimed like a battering ram at the Dutch line.
The Jerries were massed in solid formation at about twenty thousand feet - dark dots against the blue sky.
The literary culture of the author was at least equal to the majority of his contemporary writers; he possessed a solid humanistic and legal formation.
His troop was not in solid formation; his men were about ten yards apart.
The love of God and of others, based on a solid doctrinal formation, is nurtured here.