How to Use pennant in a Sentence

pennant

noun

• The Red Sox won the American League pennant in 2004.
• The team is at 4.1% to win the pennant and 1.4% to win the World Series.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
• The Giants, the Padres and the Dodgers are fighting for the pennant.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Tops on the list, of course, is the 1951 pennant race between the Dodgers and the Giants.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The Phillies won the pennant and will meet the Astros in the World Series.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• The Padres hope their spending pays off in a pennant for the first time since 1998.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The moment the ball left the bat, Contreras jumped out of the dugout like the Cubs had won the pennant.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
• The Yankees have made the playoff five years in a row but haven’t won the pennant since 2009.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Orosco threw all sliders and struck out Bass to win the pennant.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• There have been 14 teams take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NLCS, and all have gone on to win the pennant.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• But the Tigers were in a close race for the American League pennant.
  — Robert Gudmestad, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
• Baseball needs its greats at the heart of pennant races.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
• This was said after the Yankees fell in five games to the Rays, who won the AL pennant.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The two times the Padres won a pennant, they got fed into a wood chipper.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Dodgers beat the Giants in the final two games to secure a pennant — for St. Louis.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021
• Get your Guardians garb now as Cleveland races for the pennant.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• The Phillies won 4-1, but Pittsburgh went on to capture the NL pennant.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2021
• The next year, of course, came the Wild Card and pennant and the year after that a world championship.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 8 July 2018
• The Astros won the American League pennant for the third time in five years.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• He’s been to the playoffs five times but never won a pennant.
  — Jake Seiner, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• Baker won a pennant with the 2002 Giants then fell to the Angels in the Series.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
• The pennant belonged solely to the Sox after a loss by the Detroit Tigers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
• There could be one of Trench’s Fenway Park pennants hanging in the rafters.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Winning a pennant for the cost of $60 million or so will leave a wart or two.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
• The idea now is to get to the World Series and be set up to win the pennant again the following season.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2021
• The Mets, at the time counted out of the pennant race, eventually won it.
  — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
• Looking for some help in a pennant race or the post-season?
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019
• Time for the Orioles to win the American League pennant.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• The Giants have won 39 pennants and 22 Japan World Series overall.
  — Chuck Murr, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• Out-of-towners streamed in by train and Model-Ts, packing hotels draped with bunting and pennants of the two storied rivals.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Feb 2025