truce flag

Example Sentences

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At 4 o'clock, with a white truce flag in his hand and a U. N. observer carrying a walkie-talkie behind him, Flint moved to the flat top of Mount Scopus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Exhausted by his long losing fight, Generalissimo Reed Smoot wearily hoisted the truce flag and in a thin voice announced his terms of surrender.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cannonading that echoes along London's Fleet Street was suddenly stilled, and Britain's battling press lords struck a truce flag to pay convivial tribute to one of their fellows.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Hoke sent a truce flag and demanded the surrender of the post.

From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by Elliott, James Carson

But the anxious eyes of warrior and prophet had seen the Spirit cloud rising, at last, into the sky; high pealed their whoops and chants again; a volley of bullets answered the truce flag.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)