How To Use Lank In A Sentence

Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
His first impulse was to turn around and walk away, blank her out, pretend he hadn't even seen.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
There wasn't a blank spot anywhere, beautiful carpets covered most of the floor and there were paintings and animal furs on the walls.
More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan.

I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
Just as Peter Crouch the binman may find his lanky frame considerably less alluring to the opposite sex. Archive 2009-07-01
And here ... sign this blank cheque for what you owe.
By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
In the northern Bering and southern Chukchi Seas, primary production occurs over a shallow shelf (50 to 200 m) and as the zooplankton and bacterioplankton cannot fully deplete this carbon source, it is either transferred to the benthos or advected downstream [17]. Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
*shuffle, dig dig* I digs throo teh blankees an finds wun just for yoo. Can I come live wiv u? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
At the touch of a button one of the blank monitors blipped to life, displaying a scene that was being picked up by a hidden remote camera.
At this time of year, plants are tucked up for the winter under a thick blanket of winter mulch.
And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
We approached from one flank. Anti-Ice
The fact that they are harmless plankton feeders in no way diminishes the adrenaline rush; the ease with which you can approach them makes that rare encounter even more exciting.
She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract.
Once his periodic table had been drawn, these blanks were suddenly obvious. Times, Sunday Times
Some days earlier, they'd left the hill country behind for the flanks of the mountains. A Time of War
This regress is signalled not only by increases in mental confusion but by typography less and less coherent, the type straying over the page, and with some pages simply blank.
From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this -- Life on the Mississippi
Police say the weapons were seized as it is suspected that they breach the 1982 Firearms Act, which prohibits the selling of readily convertible blank firing weapons.
The forwards also seemed intent on glory as several rolling mauls were stopped dead in their tracks when the wingers were standing idle and unmarked on the flanks.
He told us point - blank that his company was on the verge of bankruptcy.
A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
In deeper waters, not enough light penetrates the depths, which means the reef's main food producers, algae and plankton, cannot photosynthesize.
The video recordings of the interviews showed the suspect sitting at a desk clutching a blue blanket over his head. Times, Sunday Times
Fill the blanks in these Sun headlines. The Sun
Every time that the backwoodsmen tried to stitch her up, though, she would outflank them. Times, Sunday Times
My mind went blank with grief and despair.
I bundled Lucy up in a blanket and made her a cup of tea.
He just moves on, as if we were unworthy of his attention, like the remoras which hitch a free ride on his flanks, and which he brushes off if they carelessly move within reach of his flippers.
The researchers were therefore surprised to discover that foraminiferan tests sampled from the Challenger Deep contained calcareous components, including the dissolved remnants of coccoliths, the calcium carbonate plates of tiny algae called coccolithophores, and planktonic foraminiferan test fragments. Innovations-report
Most kids are drawing perfect ovals while others leave it blank.
The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: The Crimson Fairy Book
Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
It was a main plank of their manifesto. The Sun
The main work of this thesis is research tire bubble detection algorithm for filling up the blank of this area.
The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.
At the time Milankovitch did his work, it was generally assumed that four glaciations had occurred in the Alps during the Pleistocene, named Günz, Mindel, Riss and Würm. Milankovitch, Milutin
A further clarification of the mystery man's identity still elicited a blank response.
The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.
She nodded snuggling deeper into the blankets and stealing their warmth.
Side plank up so the weight of your body is on your forearm and feet. The Sun
He was given only a wooden pallet with a blanket.
The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
Haze Blankets Singapore Vivek Prakash/Reuters A combination photo showed Singapore's financial district on a clear day on Sept. 11, top, and shrouded in haze on Thursday, bottom. Indonesia Seeks to Stem Haze
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
And it was not reported, it can be reported now that in the very beginning they had identified this very small area called the carbolic (ph) gap as their entranceway, basically, into Baghdad and into flanking and enveloping the Medina. CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003
She settled the blanket around her knees.
After advancing about 100 meters, it became obvious that high ground to the north and south meant their western line of advance could be flanked from the high ground on both sides. Todd, Robert J.
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
At night, they advised us to put on our under-bungalow lights and wait for the floorshow of ravenous and strange-looking fish gobbling up plankton just beneath us.
An old stone wall marks the boundary of the plot to one side, while a rocky hill and concrete wall flanks the other.
The flank is located under the filet, along the sides of the beef. Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef
En la sama momento papilio, kiu sidis proksime de ni sur la barilo kaj jen etendis, jen altiris siajn rugxajn flugiletojn kun argxenta subajxo, rapide levigxis kaj transflugis al la germana flanko. The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
While I kept back the dogs, Uncle Denis, kneeling down, pulled out the quills, and then throwing my blanket over the animal, he secured it as we had done the urson. With Axe and Rifle
Nets are strung on the exterior frame to catch falling objects, and every other floor is planked to stop falls.
Ben left the blankets on the back of the sofa while he followed Hoss upstairs to gather his own warm clothes from his bedroom.
Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door.
He blew on the small cuts for a moment, then burrowed back underneath the blankets to resume his interrupted sleep.
His head was hidden under a blue blanket, but deep sighs were audible. Times, Sunday Times
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
Additionally there will be handsome trophies and holiday packages to Sri Lanka resorts.
Stone walls are left exposed or clad with broad wooden planks and painted white. Times, Sunday Times
She looked up at him in fear, he was tall and lanky and she felt small and miserable sitting in his shadow.
And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? — Finnegans Wake
The interior teems with antiquity: ornate plasterwork, a huge inglenook, stained glass, elaborate panelling and a plank and muntin screen. Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
They have often attacked ships in Sri Lankan waters.
The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
The patient kneels on the spread (B) prepared for her; this consists of a sheep-skin (S) covered with a cotton blanket (C) and a zarape (Z). Labor Among Primitive Peoples
Eight men shared a tiny windowless area of the fish hold with four cardboard "bunks" resting on planks. Modern-day slavery: horrific conditions on board ships catching fish for Europe
The re-ordination conferred there was based on the precedent of the strengthening procedure (Pali: dalhikamma) followed, for instance, when bhikkhus ordained according to the procedures of the Sri Lankan division of Theravada have been re-ordained according to those of the Burmese division of Theravada. A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages �� Part Two: Day One
These critics claim he denigrates the ‘real’ moral values of Sri Lankan rural life.
A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
Also bear in mind that probably most shots we take are 200-400 yards which is point blank or near abouts that with any flat shooting rifle. Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
It was built floor-by-floor using precast planking.
Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
All that remained was that lovely blank undecorated space upstairs which led up to the administrative offices.
The Bonded Liberation Front estimates that there are 25m bonded children in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The lanky striker headed his 12th goal of the season 10 minutes from the end. The Sun
More than 200 people gathered outside his home on the outskirts of Bolton as a steam-powered cavalcade flanked by police motorcycle outriders escorted him on his final journey.
The blanket medicalisation of society, however, should be approached with caution. Times, Sunday Times
A rectal probe housing a linear array of five copper-constantan thermocouples was designed to measure colonic temperatures simultaneously at positions anterior to, within, and posterior to the region of the colon flanked by the countercurrent heat exchanger. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
The masseuse applied fragrant medicated oils on the head and body in plentiful measure as one lay on a high wooden plank on the secluded verandah of an open walled courtyard.
Childhood obesity is, in fact, the key plank of government policy today. Times, Sunday Times
This looks like a blanket or comforter - fuzzy and warm.
The planter behind is filled with fragrant vines; two ‘Royal Cape’ plumbagos in red pots flank the front posts.
Like the blue whale, many aquatic organisms filter plankton. Biology Basic Facts
Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up.
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
Slip a sheet of blank paper or an entire magazine into the baggie.
Garrisons suggest a more entrenched military encampment, using tents rather than blankets.
It's hard to be "tarred" with a neutral or complimentary label the sole purpose of which is to assign blanket characteristic behavior patterns to the recipient. Gringos and Euros and Canucks, oh boy
Cover with a thick layer of seaweed, and a piece of old canvas, blanket, carpet, or dry leaves, to keep in the steam.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
He tried to push them off, but they had him pinned under the blanket.
There are solar blankets kind of furled up in there. CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007
Half a century later, Sri Lanka's presumed potential has not eventuated, not least because of the war which has effectively split the country since 1983.
He told it, stringing it out while the three spread their blankets and collected a pile of firewood for the night. A Plague of Angels
Carambola, a small tree or shrub, is thought to be native to Java or other parts of Indonesia, and perhaps also Sri Lanka.
Most of the hadjys were mounted in the Shebrye, a sort of palankeen placed upon the camel. Travels in Arabia
You try and gift something to the nation and meet a blank wall of bureaucratic indifference. Times, Sunday Times
She lay tangled in her blanket, one arm hiding her face.
He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket. The Sun
They were mostly tarred up to the top planks and then painted blue or white. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
England see him as a centre, although he has made an impact for Bath at blindside flanker. Times, Sunday Times
They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi's blood pressure.
If the Tigers indeed wanted to regroup, which is what Sri Lanka fears the most, they would then invest any amount of money to have their remaining battle hardened cadres smuggled out of these camps. Kottu
Maclaren Techno Four Seasons Pushchair Description 1 buggy, 4 seasons, 8 looks: The four seasons buggy is suitable from birth and comes complete with 3 reversible seat liners for spring, summer and autumn, a footmuff for winter, boot, a reversible blanket, raincover and storage bag to coordinate with all 4 seasons. WN.com - Articles related to Trinoma welcomes summer
Hitting metal crap with swords in-game should make a 'clanky' noise. Us Being Human
The building is flanked by a Liver bird on each tower watching over the city and the sea. Times, Sunday Times
They drew a blank in their search for the driver.
One mammoth cloud lay half-way across the sky, a big fleecy blanket, dragging its train. DANSVILLE
Cognitive blanks are the sporadic result of careless reading, I knew.
Side plank up so the weight of your body is on your forearm and feet. The Sun
With a blank sheet the court would have taken that approach. Times, Sunday Times
Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest.
Write your name, address and telephone number in the blank spaces at the top of the page.
Then he twirled, sambaed and sashayed across the cypress-planked floor. Mogo Rules
Rovers very nearly got themselves back into the game within seconds, when Finn ran on to Gary Twigg's flick-on to head towards goal, but Ryzhikov made a fine reaction save to keep his effort out from point-blank range. Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report
Above the centre gateway, between the noble wings of the propyla which flank it, is a representative emblem of Osiris, in the shape of a splendid shield of the sun, a half-sphere of gold, from which extend wings for many yards, each feather glittering with precious stones. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
It was bad for Sri Lanka, but not catastrophic if they can win at least one more game.
She gave him a blank stare.
But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
Kevlar also was used on the Galileo probe to Jupiter, which included a parachute made of Kevlar, and at the International Space Station, where a blanket made of Kevlar was used to wrap its inner walls to protect from micrometeorites.
I imagine that an acupuncture session is fairly relaxing for the pet - the article indicates that the animal isthe center of attention during these exercises – they are petted, nuzzled, spoken to in calming adult-cooing baby language, placed on warm blankets with candle light and soft music, perhaps? Pet Acupunture – Grrrrr! Ruff! « Biodork
Even boys - traditionally reluctant readers - were devouring it under the blankets.
Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
A blanket ban on western reporters makes the getting of hard information almost impossibly difficult.
Mark was still chattering about the movie scene when all the cathode ray screens went blank. BLACKWATER SOUND
With picnic blankets, hampers and candles in safety cups, the visitors began taking up their positions on the grassy knoll.
At evening viewings, comfortable cushions and blankets are placed on the lounge chairs.
This is the kind of blankety coat I want to wrap myself in on misty mornings. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The arched cupboards flanking the fireplace held the silver and best ceramics and glass in the house.
The Afghan army on their flanks was better armed and vastly more competent. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the wooden planks on the spacious, modern pier have been reclaimed from the original structure. Times, Sunday Times
Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press.
If acidification kills tiny sea snails known as pteropods, as it is likely to, the Pacific salmon that feed upon these planktonic creatures may also die.
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
And endpapers are the four blank pages at the beginning and end of a book, included by the bookbinder to give the book additional strength.
The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
I am on the left and in thrall to Karl Marx, Gul tells Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror. Pakistan cricketer calls on Marxist in case for the defence
Don't leave a blank space here - no one's life is perfect.
To investigate further, the biologists took to subalpine forests in the foothills of Mount Fuji, where the cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of red-flanked bush robins.
We're also doing blanket food distributions and that's within the first emergency phase.
We should have had the St John Ambulance brigade giving us tea and thermal blankets.
He ran out carrying a stack of blank papers, a bunch of crayons, pencils, charcoal sticks, a camera and a huge straw hat.
The door was unmarked and completely blank except for a single word written in a dark red script: Wayward.
I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
She had darting, small brown eyes and the light seemed to pass with ease through the large ears protruding through her oily, lank hair…
A wide receiver that is 6-2 or taller I classify as a flanker receiver. USATODAY.com - An early look: Six golden nugget wide receivers
Delicatessen Sangerbund holdin 'us while they sung th' Watch on th 'Rhine, we stepped ashore on a gangplank neatly formed be th' guv'nor iv th 'state holdin' onto th 'feet iv th' mayor, him clutchin 'th' iditor iv th 'Staats Zeitung an' so on, th 'gangplank singin' th 'Watch on th' Rhine as we walked to th 'dock. Observations By Mr. Dooley
Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists.
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They were good blankets, of most marvellous thickness and warmth, and her pride in them was greatened in that they had been come by so cheaply. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
The convoy also included ambulances and a fire engine and was flanked by police on motorcycles. Times, Sunday Times
Since silica can only limit diatoms, other forms of phytoplankton might dominate if nitrogen is regenerated more rapidly.
At 12: 50 PM, hester said ... did you really stay for the whole thing?? quite impressive! btw, our performance of zimmermann's Erde-Wasser-Luft-Töne was prepared with heavy non-stick masking tape and blankets. drury's performance of it in jordan hall used steel putty. glad you enjoyed the iditarod! On the Trail
He shook the blankets vigorously to get rid of the dust.
The crowd gave the serial killer blank stares as he was escorted from the courtroom.
Scrapbooks crammed with yellowed reviews overflow on to sheets the color of daffodils, a salmon satin blanket cover.
Likewise, other artillery and light artillery companies from both flanks of the city began to fire.
Evidence that Woodrow Call harbored no light feeling for Maggie was right before him: Call looked blank and sad, not unlike the way survivors looked after an Indian raid or a shoot-out of some kind. Comanche Moon
In a 45-minute harangue in Brussels, flanked by a group of photogenic women bodyguards, he will have caused anxiety to those who have welcomed him back to the fold.
He is the rock star in all but name, wearing the same lank mane and trademark grungy threads.
As she perched on the blanket and started to unlace her boots, she remembered what the constable had said and leapt to her feet. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Based on the mathematical models of the flute surface and the flank of the twist drill with quadratic flank faces, its relevant planes and lines were mapped on a projection plane.
Over against its left flank was a German "fortin," known to us as Stony Mountain, bristling with machine guns, guns which later did terrible execution. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
We've had air and soft air pistols, air rifles, blank firers and replica guns surrendered, which is an excellent result.
There were little blankets designed to wrap the baby like a papoose, but I worried that I would wrap the child too tight and suffocate her. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
The migration staff might be able to fill out any remaining blank fields later, based on the mandatory input or after a call-back.
He shook his head to dismiss the troublesome thoughts, and dug his spurs into the flanks of the horse.
A blinding coat of white blanketed the thick shrubbery that defined my garden.
Staff at a beauty salon used a fire extinguisher and fire blanket to put out the flames and called an ambulance. Times, Sunday Times
Chassepot armed infantry easily checked their opponents, but were pounded by artillery and forced to retreat as the Germans found their flanks.
The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked.
Nearshore, the seaward flanks, in the lee of a SSW-directed alongshore flow, are steeper.
Write your name, address and telephone number in the blank spaces at the top of the page.
And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
To identify expressed sequences, 16 kb of genomic DNA flanking the proviral integration site was sequenced and compared to genetic databases.
The reception was encased in bulletproof glass, the blankets were riddled with holes and the remote control was moist. Times, Sunday Times
When Julius entered, Michelangelo - like Zeus with his thunderbolts - hurled planks from the scaffolding down at the Holy Father, routing him from the chapel.
Kennedy: I dialled and hit a mental blank. Times, Sunday Times
Just the type of blank page made to suit a man like him.
He was laying under an army blanket, on a rickety cot, right arm bandaged, and the other pillowing his head.
Professor Mike Zubkov from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton presents his study on bacterioplankton consumption at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh today. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Some of these low-lying areas, with waterlogged deposits blanketed by alluvium, have provided good evidence for Roman farming.
By the end of July, the forces of the three fronts outflanked the Orel force grouping of the enemy in the north, east and south.

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