Example sentences for: flanks

How can you use “flanks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The avenue of the ram-headed sphinxes flanks the route from the Nile to the temple entrance.

  • In golden hamsters, microinjections of arginine vasopressin (AVP) into the anterior hypothalamus trigger grooming and flank marking, a stereotyped scent marking behavior [ 1 2 ] . Within a minute after AVP microinjections, hamsters start to lick and comb sebaceous glands situated on their dorsolateral flanks.

  • The book, however, is internally powered by Ballard's patented transformation of cold into hot, turning medical and automotive jargon into spectacularly baroque metaphors: "Thinking of the extensor rictus of her spine during orgasm, the erect hairs on her undermuscled thighs, I stared at the stylized manufacturer's medallion visible in the photographs, the contoured flanks of the window pillars."

  • In canine acral lick dermatitis, the excessive licking of the paws and flanks was significantly reduced by fluoxetine and clomipramine two and three weeks into treatment, respectively [ 25 ] . However, the scale of the reduction was more pronounced over a five-week period of treatment [ 25 ] . Perhaps flank gland grooming would have been significantly altered in these studies if drug treatment had been extended for several more weeks.

  • Two more men stood at her flanks.


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