flank
Example Sentences
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An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.
From Los Angeles Times
Given the recent struggles of Cody Gakpo, who has played more minutes than any Liverpool forward this season, Ngumoha perhaps deserves a chance down his preferred left flank.
From BBC
Zhang’s arrest on Jan. 19 marked a stunning fall for a man whose political lineage and loyalty once made him the bedrock of the Chinese ruler’s military flank.
A bus arrived, and the group rode on it for more than an hour, two vehicles flanking them, before reaching another inspection point.
From Los Angeles Times
Bath team-mates Guy Pepper and Sam Underhill, who are both named on the bench, have started the past four Tests together on the flanks but they struggled to impose themselves at Murrayfield.
From BBC
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