FLAG in a Sentence
Learn FLAG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
167 example sentences for FLAG, such as:
1. The red flag flaps in the wind.
2. The flag was aflutter in the air.
3. Some plants flag in hot, dry weather.
4. Bare your head when the flag is raised.
5. The flag was flapping about in the light wind.
2. The flag was aflutter in the air.
3. Some plants flag in hot, dry weather.
4. Bare your head when the flag is raised.
5. The flag was flapping about in the light wind.
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Meanings and Examples of FLAG
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flag
v. become less intense; sink, or settle from pressure
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1 And she had embroidered half a dozen sofa-pillow cases with the Confederate flag on them.
2 Here, under a draped Confederate flag, hung the gold-hilted saber that Melanie's father had carried in the Mexican War, the same saber Charles had worn away to war.
3 He's a nice man, General Hood, and I know I could make him give me an escort and a flag of truce to get me through the lines.
4 They had fought a good fight, had been licked and were willing to settle down peaceably to plowing beneath the flag they had fought.
5 It had been a gay beautiful place and now--there was a large United States flag floating over it.
6 Your flag must be nailed to the mast, for obviously you'd run it down if it wasn't.
7 There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
8 But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
9 I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
10 One of the girls had read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and paraded all about the yards, yelling with rage.
11 At the end of it the girl who had carried the red flag went downtown and got a position in a great department store, at a salary of two dollars and a half a week.
12 Upon the ocean of commerce it sailed as a pirate ship; it had hoisted the black flag and declared war upon civilization.
13 The truce still existed, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his instructions were ended.
14 A very few minutes only were necessary to parade a few files, and to dispatch an orderly with a flag to announce the approach of the commandant of the fort.
15 They could see a flag that tossed in the smoke angrily.
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 They flew the flag of the African National Congress.
2 The flag was aflutter in the air.
3 The hotel flies the American flag when it has guests from the US.
4 You hoist a flag when you pull it to the top of its pole.
5 Then the rain came and the red flag went up to signal a halt.
6 They ran up a flag in honor of the president's visit.
7 Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
8 The red flag flaps in the wind.
9 The flag was flapping about in the light wind.
10 The starter waved a green flag to indicate that the race would begin.
11 The soldiers lay down their guns and walked towards the enemy camp, carrying a white flag.
12 The flag was red, with a large white circle in the center.
13 After the invasion, people were forbidden to fly their national flag.
14 Bare your head when the flag is raised.
15 Some plants flag in hot, dry weather.