A back stationed wide of the scrimmage line

Usage examples of flanker.

Troop Guide Bikaner, I want four men on foot to go forward as flankers atop those rocks.

Not as The President: a broken little bully who would sacrifice us all to save himself -- if he still had the choice -- but the same kind of sympathy I might feel, momentarily, for a vicious cheap-shot linebacker whose long career comes to a sudden end one Sunday afternoon when some rookie flanker shatters both his knees with a savage crackback block.

Thence they had an excellent view of a large body of horsemen approaching them with scouts, flankers, and all military precautions.

Dik, then had his patrol remount and ride on, drawing his flankers in tighter since the broad, cultivated fields to either side left insufficient cover to hide ambushers, and if any force should come out of the distant woods, the open stretches they would be forced to cover would allow for more than adequate warning.

Freefighters with the flankers taking the road a bare half-hour later.

General Hamil did not speak again to Kadiya, although he kept her close by as he listened to reports brought in by flankers and scouts.

He knew the pattern they would assume, the two flankers moving ahead, the leaderhidden in sorceryhanging back, eyes flicking between the two hunters, scanning alley mouths, rooftops, a rib-less crossbow in each hand.

Such as were able to do so fenced their dwellings with palisades, or built them of solid timber, with loopholes, a projecting upper story like a blockhouse, and sometimes a flanker at one or more of the corners.

Not checking to see if Red Flight had managed to keep up with him as he sped eastward toward the evading American fighters, the leader of Brezhnev Group One put his Sukhoi-27 Flanker in a max after-burner climb and searched frantically on wide-scan radar for the intruders.

The two Sukhoi-27 Flanker fighters that had given chase were the only ones able to spot the missile launches and take evasive action in time, and the Viper missiles chasing them exploded harmlessly after their propellant was exhausted.

At twenty thousand feet in the thin air over Kunashir Island, Sergei Viktor cruised in his assigned position, making a five-mile circle over the target below in his SU-33 Flanker, then doing a lazy eight, and coming back to circle his position the other way.

The flankers had to keep Slightly ahead of the tracker, anticipating the line of the spoor, sweeping the terrain for ambush, covering and protecting Matatu yet keeping fifty paces out on each side, breaking their own trail and still maintaining contact with the opposite flanker, all this while on the run and mostly out of sight of each other, with Matatu setting a furious pace in the center.

They set off more carefully across the open, scorched deck-point guard, flankers, the main body following with their guns ready.

The man was the left flanker of the front rank, a small man, and he had bitten off his cartridge and was pouring the powder down the muzzle of his musket.

He nosed the SU-33 Flanker downward, and pushed on his radar fire controls.