How to Use flagpole in a Sentence

flagpole

noun
  • The pavers were to be used for a stone plaza around the track’s flagpole.
    oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
  • If that fails, the flagpole will have to come down in 30 days.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2021
  • From the base of the bell tower to the top of the flagpole, the building ascends 393 feet in the air.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • The sail rose up the mast like a squirrel climbing a flagpole.
    Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • And two flagpoles on the upper sun deck are used to fly the U.S. flag on one and the flags of the 49ers, Sharks or Warriors.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
  • And this flag is ready to return to its flagpole and right on time for the Fourth of July.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2022
  • To that end, Boston has flown all manner of flags from the third flagpole over the years.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Among the three flags that were likely on that flagpole, this one was on the bottom.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Gonell was beaten with a flagpole and his hand was sliced open.
    Jeremy Herb, CNN, 27 July 2021
  • When The Times visited the house on Wednesday, the flagpole was bare.
    Julie Tate, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Ledoux pulled into a turning lane, and Logsdon ran up to the car with the flagpole and hit the girl in her face and in the chest.
    orlandosentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Videos show the group pummeling the wood-and-glass doors with a helmet, feet and a flagpole.
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Last Thursday, the owl perched on a bronze eagle atop a flagpole.
    CBS News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Nix hit the officer twice, once on the head, and threw the flagpole at him, the government said.
    Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • To the side is a flagpole with the American flag above the Mexican flag.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
  • Flags are allowed, but flagpoles cannot be more than 2 feet in length.
    Amin Touri, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Half-staff is defined as one-half the distance between the top and bottom of the flagpole.
    Rebecca Deczynski, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2021
  • One of the armed Trump supporters in the crowd brandished a spear tip fashioned to a flagpole.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2022
  • Since then, the symbol has been added to a station door, and a Fort Apache flag has flown from the flagpole outside.
    The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Firefighters had to cut part of the flagpole to fit the victim in the ambulance.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The ball came to earth beyond the flagpole for Turner’s sixth career grand slam.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • The ball descended from the flagpole atop One Times Square — and the rest is history.
    Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Out front, three flagpoles stand sentinel, one flying the flag of the United States.
    Desperation Town, ProPublica, 11 May 2020
  • Roy Brook of Bessemer stood holding a U.S. flag on a flagpole.
    al, 4 May 2020
  • Later that evening, the fire truck began to shake, and a flagpole near the vehicle snapped in two.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 May 2022
  • Skow said windblown snow tends to pile up in the area that buckled near the front of the building, citing a 5-foot drift near the flagpole.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Aquilino Gonell was battered with a flagpole and had his hand sliced open.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 17 July 2021
  • For most homeowners with one flagpole, this means the U.S. flag is at the peak, above any other flag.
    courant.com, 4 June 2021
  • Classes were canceled Thursday at the Georgia high school, though some people came to leave flowers around the flagpole and kneel in the grass with heads bowed.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Others used makeshift weapons to attack police, including flagpoles, a crutch and a hockey stick.
    Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024

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