flagstaff
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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
“That’s a real flagstaff, you see,” said Wemmick, “and on Sundays I run up a real flag. Then look here. After I have crossed this bridge, I hoist it up—so—and cut off the communication.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
On the waterfront of Bilbao last week, city flags still hung from flagstaffs flaunting the city's 700-year motto: INVINCIBLE.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It is therefore for good reasons that vanes are perched up on high flagstaffs fixed on the roofs of buildings.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
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
