Sentence examples for was now flanked from inspiring English sources

The house had once stood alone, surrounded by open country, but after a spate of development in the area, it was now flanked by other houses.

Some people tried to sit down but there was little space; some tried to move back to the bridge's entrance, but from what I understood, it was now flanked by police officers, too.

The same person that has charmed everyone from audiences of US television talk shows to Hollywood producers was now flanked by her mother and her sister, still smiling and having hardly broken a sweat.

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a veteran Republican member of one of the Senate's most testosterone-driven panels, was now flanked by them on both sides, including by two Republican colleagues, Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska.

The focus is Skanderbeg Square, whose Etehem Bey Mosque (1819) is now flanked by the Soviet-built Palace of Culture.

Along neighboring Lange Herentalsestraat, Rachel's Kosher Restaurant is now flanked by the Bollywood Indian Restaurant and the Shanti Shop Indian supermarket.

At Decibel, the menu is now flanked by a flier offering customers "authentic products" that are used in sake breweries in Japan.

The house is now flanked by tiered beds of Echinacea, sunflowers, forsythia and tiger lilies, which rise above and around numerous stone Buddhas.

The island's Watering Place, a bay fed by streams that supplied fresh water for Revolutionary War battleships, is now flanked by fast-food joints.

That didn't prevent me from admiring the dignified Victorian buildings -- banks, hotels, homes -- that had been erected in the raw Wild West, and were now flanked by broad leafy streets and backed by the ragged Blue Mountains.

The generic faces of action figures typified by G.I. Joe are now flanked by armies of faces drawn from "The Matrix," "Spider-Man," "Charlie's Angels," "Star Wars," "Star Trek," the film version of "The Cat in the Hat" and characters usually found lurking only in PC's and video-game consoles.