Explore Flak through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like flack or antiaircraft. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Flak in a sentence
Related words
Flak meaning
- Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
- Anti-aircraft shell fire.
- Adverse criticism.
Synonyms of Flak
Using Flak
- The main meaning on this page is: Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. | Anti-aircraft shell fire. | Adverse criticism.
- Useful related words include: flack, antiaircraft gun, antiaircraft, unfavorable judgment.
- In the example corpus, flak often appears in combinations such as: flak from, flak for, of flak.
Context around Flak
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flak
- In this selection, "flak" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, draws, cops, got, jackets and vest stand out and add context to how "flak" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ammunition and flak jackets it and and got flak from netizens. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flak" sits close to words such as abstinence, adventurer and alters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flak
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He won't be relishing more flak. (7 words)
Presidents from Eisenhower to Trump caught the flak. (8 words)
Family ‘divided’ in Congress polls, A.K. Antony draws flak from state. (12 words)
The series which starred him in the titular role with Venkatesh received some flak from the Telugu audience and in a recent conversation on Netflix’s Series Actors’ Roundtable, Rana said that the show made him “less popular” with his audience. (41 words)
There were 1,200 or so foreign journalists, TV crews and peace campaigners in Israel that week; those crowded round the barricades at Bethlehem, the majority clad in helmets and flak-jackets, were begging to be allowed to go in. (40 words)
Going a little further back, (2011) caught a lot of flak, but the design was half-decent, the costumes from the first few movies gave no care to comic book accuracy and had no character, but they looked fine. (39 words)
James Cameron once faced the heat from Patty Jenkins after criticising Wonder Woman and got flak from netizens - Read on! (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
After the raid, the Israeli army released a video showing automatic weapons, grenades, ammunition, and flak jackets it said were recovered from the hospital complex.
And the elephant in the room is that Watt has faced, rightly or wrongly, a lot of flak in recent years.
An irate Coles customer has slammed the supermarket giant 'for making us look like morons' as the company cops flak for adding more self-serve checkout points.
Another new activity took place on Saturday afternoon where participants could test their skills at Flak’s Archery Tag.
At the time it was Smith who took the flak, but you wonder what Twitter/X would make of the encounter now.
Delay in introducing kindergarten classes at all Corporation-run schools in the city draws flak among the residents in Tiruchi.
Every day when Daniel Marie 's husband put on his flak vest and walked out the door for another day of fighting Haiti's gangs, she wondered if he would come home that night.
Family ‘divided’ in Congress polls, A.K. Antony draws flak from state.
Going a little further back, (2011) caught a lot of flak, but the design was half-decent, the costumes from the first few movies gave no care to comic book accuracy and had no character, but they looked fine.
He won't be relishing more flak.
James Cameron once faced the heat from Patty Jenkins after criticising Wonder Woman and got flak from netizens - Read on!
Most famously, Netflix caught flak this year when a short film titled The Dog & The Boy was released.
Presidents from Eisenhower to Trump caught the flak.
The move has drawn sharp flak from a section of teachers, who termed it a saffronisation of education and an attempt to compare Gandhi and Savarkar.
The noise quandary transcends the beach, infiltrating city entertainment establishments that receive flak for discordant music disturbing the peace during nocturnal hours.
There were 1,200 or so foreign journalists, TV crews and peace campaigners in Israel that week; those crowded round the barricades at Bethlehem, the majority clad in helmets and flak-jackets, were begging to be allowed to go in.
The series which starred him in the titular role with Venkatesh received some flak from the Telugu audience and in a recent conversation on Netflix’s Series Actors’ Roundtable, Rana said that the show made him “less popular” with his audience.
This is not to say that the Igbos do not deserve some of the flak that they get.
This is the fourth time since 2016 when the Bihar government has received flak from either the Patna High Court or the Supreme Court, for legal lapses and administrative loopholes in its key legislative and administrative decisions.
While asking members of the public to stop inundating them with "false information, accusations and rumors," Lancashire Police has taken flak for its own handling of the case.
Common combinations with flak
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: