How to Use ensign in a Sentence

ensign

noun

• Red, white and blue all over, the design features a flag trim alternating between France’s tricolor ensign and Britain’s Union Jack.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
• And all this happens there, in the solitude of reading, while the ensign takes a nap.
  — Phil Klay, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• As the British ensign was lowered to the tune of a navy band, Her Majesty was photographed blinking back tears.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 8 Nov. 2022
• With the naval ensign of Italy flag waving rapidly at the boat's bow, the couple take in the splendid views of the Mediterranean coast.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
• Just what all those new ensigns and their proud parents wanted to hear.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 20 May 2017
• The photo was a black-and-white portrait of England in his Navy ensign’s uniform.
  — National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
• Among them were the blue ensign of Australia and the two banners of its Indigenous peoples.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Half-hearted stints, in the next few years, as a legal apprentice and an army ensign proved just as abortive.
  — Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Courtesy of Michael Rosenberg Back then, for 18 long months at sea, the ensign didn't see a single woman.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
• The windbreaker, which always features the eagle ensign, used to be bluish-gray.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Cervantes could have made the ensign read the manuscript aloud to the licentiate.
  — Phil Klay, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Thankfully, the rest of the team shows up to arrest Wills, having gotten confessions from his men about the ensign's murder.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Her first tour as an ensign took her to Seattle for an assignment aboard an icebreaker, the Polar Star.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2022
• Joshua Watson, an ensign, was one of the three people killed in Friday’s shooting, the Navy confirmed late Saturday.
  — Author: Katie Mettler, Marisa Iati, Derek Hawkins, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019
• Then the team's called to investigate the murder of an ensign who was gunned down at the wheel of a truck transporting $3 million of black-market opioids that the Navy seized at sea.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• However, his chances of making the roster took a major hit last month when the Navy upheld his commission as an ensign.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
• The graduates receive commissions as Navy ensigns or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps and serve at least five years.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018
• In June 1954, Rumsfeld graduated and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy.
  — Robert Burns, ajc, 1 July 2021
• The ensign was deconstructed and reimagined in hushed blue tones rather than the flag's typical combination of red, white and blue.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Their initial success did not mean these groundbreaking black ensigns would be spared future slights.
  — Dan C. Goldberg, Time, 19 May 2020
• Navy ensign Stanley Rosenberg, 93, recalls his crew pushing the wreckage into the ocean somewhere near the Philippines.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
• Melvin washes out, whereas Connell would become an ensign and train new recruits in New Orleans.
  — Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• Kurita’s horizontal rain and naval-ensign sun were among the first 176 emoji.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018
• After initially saying Kazuo was dead, the navy sent a higher-ranking officer to confide that the ensign was missing.
  — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• As the captain who gratefully received a steaming hot mug of coffee from his ensign on a ship pitching in heavy weather can attest, there is a leap of faith in accepting food from the hands of others.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
• He was commissioned an ensign in 1963, and served aboard the USS Constellation as a nuclear weapons officer.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2022
• The assaults subsided when the U.S. escorted and reflagged foreign tankers under its ensign.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Its sleek ensign, usage and exterior appearance checks a lot of boxes.
  — Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2023
• Green 'is not at all himself' Mac observed, without realizing that the ensign had become a bottle of emotional poison.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2018
• Rows of long buildings sit behind a gate where three flags flutter: the company ensign and a Chinese flag, but also a South Korean one, reflecting the parent company’s home base.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024