Thesaurus results for FLANKED

flanked

verb

Definition of flanked next

past tense of flank

as in adjoined

to be adjacent to the guards flank the center on a football team's offensive line

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Recent Examples of flanked Stepping down from the alcove puts you in a center aisle flanked by the entry door/wet bathroom on one side, the kitchen on the other. —

New Atlas, 4 June 2026 There are six villas, a restaurant flanked by a saltwater pool and waterslide, a clubhouse, a spa and another lawn tennis court. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026 Breen is flanked by returning commentator Richard Jefferson, who won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, and first-time finals broadcaster Tim Legler. —

Esfandiar Baraheni, New York Times, 3 June 2026 Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose. —

James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026 The first, anchored by an ice sculpture, is flanked by freshly shucked oysters topped with buttery, orange uni on one side and a server doling out caviar bumps on the other. —

Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 June 2026 Before Princess Diana’s—and now Kate Middleton’s—sapphire and diamond engagement ring became iconic, Anne’s engagement ring featured a central blue sapphire flanked by a diamond on either side. —

Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 31 May 2026 By the time the Portuguese flanked the west African coast in the late 15th century, the banana plant had already been cultivated there for centuries. —

Sophia Rey, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2026 Newsom signed the election safeguarding bill in his office, flanked by Cervantes, Umberg and Assembly sponsor Gail Pellerin, D-Santa Cruz, who was a Santa Cruz County elections clerk for nearly 30 years. —

Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026

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Verb

The two beds can also be adjoined into a single double bed with an optional kit.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2026
When first responders arrived, heavy smoke filled the air and flames were observed in the front corner window of the first floor of a 16-unit apartment building which is adjoined to two other apartment buildings.

— Erik S. Hanley, jsonline.com, 17 Feb. 2026