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Flanked in sentence

21 examples of Flanked in a sentence

And this one time I was flanked by my two kids and he turns the page and this poster is underneath, and right when I lean forward and say, "Oh my God, I love this poster," both of my kids jumped back and they are like, "Oh my God, mom, it's you."
I got to walk the red carpet flanked by soap diva Susan Lucci and the iconic Loreen Arbus.
In the dead of night, the rebels lowered themselves down the cliffside on ropes made from vines, and flanked Glaber’s unguarded camp.
What much of the world sees in Putin's Russia is a neo-authoritarian regime based on a state-directed capitalism interlinked with the ruling bureaucracy and flanked by an immature civil society.
Every night, the parade of stars up the red carpet, flanked by photographers, played out like a relic of a more ritualistic time.
Moreover, it is likely that in the month since Boko Haram released a video of the girls flanked by gunmen, the girls have been split into groups of 40-50.
She comes from the heartland of a successful and moderate civil society flanked by extremism and rage.
Tellingly, that sign was flanked by posters for the left-wing anarchist philosopher Noam Chomsky and the right-wing libertarian politician Ron Paul.
Down below, Catherine had at first occupied herself with the fire, which was burning in the iron grate, flanked by two ovens.
On it were four sirloins, six chicken fricassees, stewed veal, three legs of mutton, and in the middle a fine roast suckling pig, flanked by four chitterlings with sorrel.
The street (the only one) a gunshot in length and flanked by a few shops on either side stops short at the turn of the highroad.
What was most admired were two long lamp-stands covered with lanterns, that flanked a platform on which the authorities were to sit.
He commanded a vast level plain flanked by hills of soft outline a plain that in the dim light seemed as level as the sea.
The Evening Star came up from behind a jagged peak of rock and brushwood, that its reflection might swim undisturbed at the bottom of an almost dried reservoir, buttressed with time-yellowed marble and flanked with silver plume-grass.
A guttering candle was stuck in a crevice of the rocks which flanked it on each side so as to keep the wind from it and also to prevent it from being visible, save in the direction of Baskerville Hall.
She had embroidered a white "Welcome" upon a blue ground, with an anchor in red upon each side, and a border of laurel leaves; and this was to hang upon the two lilac bushes which flanked the cottage door.
Some precautions had been taken to place those entrances under the protection of projecting angles, by which they might be flanked in case of need by archers or slingers.
His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy: I suppose it was a good figure in the athletic sense of the term--broad chested and thin flanked, though neither tall nor graceful.
The large low room, with its white marblepanels framed in gilt beading, was furnished with looking-glasses,which prolonged, in endless perspective, the long tables, flanked bypivot-seats covered with red velvet.
Master Charmolue exhibited an alarming note book, and began to read, with many gestures and the exaggerated accentuation of the pleader, an oration in Latin, wherein all the proofs of the suit were piled up in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked with quotations from Plautus, his favorite comic author.
The shield was flanked, on the right by an olive branch, on the left by a deer's antlers.