From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhuman chainhuman chaina line of people Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the brothers to safety. → human
Examples from the Corpus
human chain• The crowd was on the point of becoming a lynch mob, but were still linked in a human chain.• Traders sitting elbow to elbow formed a human chain.• Rally organizers with colored arm-bands link hands, forming a human chain at the crosswalks.• They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together.• We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.• Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital. 