Past tense of flank
regular verb
The past tense of flank is flanked. The past participle is also flanked.
Forms of flank
| Base form (V1) | flank /flænk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | flanked /flæŋkt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | flanked /flæŋkt/ |
| Present participle | flanking |
| Third person singular | flanks |
Flanked in a sentence
- But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46
- The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas.From the entry mastaba
- In Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, Guanguan films a detention center flanked by watchtowers and surveillance cameras.2021 November 18, Nuriman Abdurashid, Roseanne Gerin, “Video from Xinjiang provides fresh evidence of China’s Uyghur repression”, in Radio…. From the entry Mori
- Her underlings flanked her, like Padawans studying beneath some great Jedi.2017, Marnie Riches, Born Bad, London: Avon, →ISBN. From the entry padawan
- In some Charles appeared, in shorts and sola topi, flanked by robed, shock-headed men of intense blackness.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry sola topi
Meaning of flank
- verb To attack the flank(s) of.
- verb To defend the flank(s) of.
- verb To place to the side(s) of.
Questions about the past tense of flank
- What is the past tense of flank?
- The past tense of flank is flanked.
- What is the past participle of flank?
- The past participle of flank is flanked.
- Is flank a regular or irregular verb?
- Flank is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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