flank
noun
the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
had flanked
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past perfectof flank.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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About two weeks later the Confederates themselves burned the bridges, but this was after Jackson had flanked Banks away from the position at Strasburg, followed him to Winchester and won a victory there.
From Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Etta Belle Walker Northington
First a wood-cutter's hut or two, then a market gardener's shanty, then a painted cottage, and all at once the faubourg had flanked and half surrounded him and his dried-up marsh.
From Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable
We found that this force was the very one that had flanked our laager the previous week, when we were passing Ventersdorp.
From Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
General Putnam was ordered to reenforce General McDougall, who was in command at the hill; but before he arrived the British had flanked the Americans and driven them from their position.
From "Old Put" The Patriot by Frederick Albion Ober
Meanwhile, two accomplices had flanked the picket, and they presently joined Rowley and showed him the way to a farm not far away, where a grave was hastily dug and the coffin lowered into it.
From Ten American Girls From History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
