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  1. flankedverb

    Simple past and past participle of to flank.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Flanked

    of Flank

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flanked in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flanked in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of flanked in a Sentence

  1. Yves Faucon:

    They put us in a roadside ditch. We hid there the whole day, 80 of us, the first English soldiers we saw were flanked by Germans. They were prisoners.

  2. Vito Mazzarino:

    At a certain point a tug boat came up and flanked the fish boat and some Libyans came on board, they were armed. And at that point chaos erupted.

  3. Chesty Puller:

    They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us twenty nine to one. They can’t get away from us now!

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