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flagstaff

[flag-staf, -stahf] / ˈflægˌstæf, -ˌstɑf /


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We say: Give it to me straight, doc, but then a flagstaff comes crashing down between our eyes.

From Washington Post Jul. 22, 2022

In his design, the sleeve was supported by a collapsible crossbar attached to the flagstaff.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2014

Mr. Kinzler was charged with designing a moonworthy flagstaff.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2014

He would win by the length of a street, and a blue and white flag would go fluttering up the flagstaff and everybody would stand to attention while the band played the Finnish national anthem.

From The Guardian May 18, 2012

It must have grown up silently, yet swiftly as a flag rises when you pull it up on a flagstaff, while they were all busied about the coronation.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

When displayed at the same location on separate poles, the code says, they “should be displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs of the same height” and “the flags should be of approximately equal size.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 25, 2022

Mitchel Square in Washington Heights is named for him, and the two commemorative flagstaffs in the plaza in front of the main public library on Fifth Avenue memorialize Mitchel.

From New York Times Mar. 26, 2011

There was no official holiday, but by spontaneous consent flags fluttered from flagstaffs from the Falkland to the Orkney Islands, from the Beaufort Sea to Tasmania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week from the flagstaffs of these pampered potentates fluttered the crimson & gold of Bikaner, the blue, white & yellow of Bahawalpur, the scarlet of Patiala.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a sultry, headachey sort of morning, with a hot sirocco that stirred the bunting on the flagstaffs.

From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley

Over the altar are still seen the French flagstaves, taken by the garrison in a desperate sally.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay




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