Sentence examples for on its flank from inspiring English sources

It is an old ship, rusted gray and green, a Navy gunboat, and it lies on its flank like the eviscerated body of an enormous fish, its smooth glass-window eyes smashed in and crowded with darkness.

There were steamer trunks and woven baskets, carpet bags in geometric designs and a metal box with the name Hughes stenciled on its flank, piled one atop another into a kind of palisade.

High on its flank, bold lettering announces that it serves the twin towns of Haparanda-Tornio, one here in Sweden and the other in Finland.

Type I collagen-rich fibrous connective tissue begins to ensheath the end bud on its flank, roughly at the point in which it begins to constrict to ductal dimensions (Figs 1b and 2a).

She quizzed the class on what military capacity India needed with hostile neighbors on its flank.

"And on its flank is a Hamas authority, which may become relatively weak because it can't deliver anything.

It was green on top, along the spine, fading to blue and silver on its flanks.

The English cavalry, in the meantime, charged over the Spanish pikes on one of its flanks.

For example, the abyssal hill imaged in line D19 (Figure 2) has thinner sediments above it than on its flanks (Figures 1 and 2).

It has whitish stripes on its flanks, a long grey bill and grey legs.

Among the streams rising on its flanks is the South Branch Saluda River, one of the two main source streams of the Saluda River.