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In the forwards, George Martin makes his first England start since the 2025 Six Nations, joining Alex Coles in the second row with Ollie Chessum on the blindside flank.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Miranda-Martin sourced two shell-shaped sconces that flank the mirror at an estate sale in San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Two goals and two wins and a danger every time he flies down the flank.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Belarus, which borders Ukraine and NATO's eastern flank countries, is closely allied with Russia.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

So we turned and tromped back up the hill toward the pair of flowery round hibiscus bushes that flank the steps to our porch.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Trout, their speckled flanks gleaming in the sun, gulped them down one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

But, for whatever reason, we have not posed a consistent threat down the flanks and constantly changing the back four has not helped our defensively stability either.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

A 4-foot-high stone wall surrounds the east and south flanks, most likely built by monks centuries ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The flanks of the horse flickered as they were pelted.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

On Friday morning, Rodríguez went on television, flanked by aides and military advisers, to reassure Venezuelans that the state was mobilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Savannah Guthrie, flanked by her fellow “Today” anchors at the desk, said she does not have comment on the new information and that she is not involved in the network’s coverage of her mother’s abduction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The author’s there, the affable Fernando González Viñas, flanked by a matador and his entourage.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

The Conservative leader, who was flanked on stage by Lumsden and Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay, thanked voters for putting their trust in the party.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

“It’s that house there, on the right,” Zara says, pointing at a mansion-sized house at the end of a long driveway, flanked on either side by wrought iron light posts.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

UK government figures from 2024 say an average of 81,578 vehicles passed eastbound every day between the two junctions flanking the Brynglas Tunnels.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

The two brothers were close, flanking their grandmother on the royal balcony or smiling on the sidelines of a polo match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

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 ● Feb. 19, 2026

Visible through one of the windows flanking the front door, she sat so still that she might have been mistaken for a statue, like the lion-dogs that guard the entrance to a Shinto shrine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

An American flag the size of a mainsail unfurled from the tallest flagpole in the Court of Honor, and immediately two more like-sized flags tumbled from flanking poles, one representing Spain, the other Columbus.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson