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Flank
"Flank" in a Sentence (20 examples)
The palace has two wings, which flank a court of honor. Rows of columns join them with the main building.
We'll attack their southern flank here, here, and here.
Flank the machine gun nest.
Use your squad to flank their position here.
"So saying, his mighty spear, with all his force, / full at the flank against the ribs he drave, / and pierced the bellying framework of the horse. / Quivering, it stood; the hollow chambers gave / a groan, that echoed from the womb's dark cave."
The volcano is in the midst of a 3-month-old eruption of lava from vents on its eastern flank while its summit crater continues to collapse.
We'll flank them around the corner.
Jimmy had devised the perfect marinade for flank steak.
The pony has a six-pointed star on its flank.
Watch your flank!
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Stately colonnades are flank'd with trees.
[...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines.
It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.
Holonym: side
Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth.
Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
I took the quarter I found and hid in my right flank.
Ford survived a primary challenge in 1976 from the right flank of the Republican Party by Ronald Reagan.
The hosts also had Paul Robinson to thank for a string of saves, three of them coming against Jerome Thomas, who gave Michel Salgado a torrid time down the left flank.
All ahead flank!
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