Example Sentences

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Wearing complementary suits—Beyoncé’s pink, Jay’s seafoam green—they are flanking the “Mona Lisa” once again.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018

"Jehoshaphat, they are flanking us!" exclaimed Jack Jaikes.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

As I turned toward the regiment, the cry went up, 'They are flanking us!'

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson

“The rebels are flanking us!” shouted an officer in another command, as our regiment hurried forward to the endangered point.

From The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion by Optic, Oliver

Also, at about sixty yards apart along the whole length of the wall, are flanking towers projecting about thirty feet from the curtain.

From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor