How to Use capture the flag in a Sentence
capture the flag
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On the Fourth, there will be a capture the flag game, snow cones and, at night, s'mores and a glow-stick party.
—Dawn Gilbertson, azcentral, 22 June 2018
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This is the first time SpaceX’s timetable to capture the flag is later than Boeing’s.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2018
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Give the fight purpose and structure by adding a game like capture the flag or freeze tag.
—Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2020
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Capture the flag at night: Play a few nighttime rounds of capture the flag with your family and friends.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 May 2021
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Teams will row across Lake Woodlands and try to capture the flag, attempting to be the first ones to bring it back across the finish line.
—Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
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With locations all over the country, little Lego fiends will build away, nary a dodgeball or game of capture the flag in sight.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
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Photo: no credit available Deadly trap The fighting on the floor of the Mohmand Valley is matched by a lethal game of capture the flag on the ridgelines above.
—Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
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But for the Woolworth clan the farm is synonymous with summer — a place to catch frogs, play capture the flag, and sneak an extra cookie from the cookie jar.
—Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2013
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Fred's House was also the congregation site for nighttime capture the flag.
—Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2013
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There’s surfing in the morning, followed by lunch and beach games like volleyball and capture the flag, followed by more surfing.
—Laurie Wilson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
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On the surface the game seems like chess: Two players line up rows of attackers across from each other on a square board and attempt to capture the flag of their opponent—the one move that will end the game.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012
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Students from kindergarten to eighth grade played dodgeball, capture the flag, basketball and other games in an indoor sports gym in North Bethesda during the last weeks of August.
—Donna St. George, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2017
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Blazepod's founder developed a series of exercises for the system, like capture the flag and relay races.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
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Squirting watermelon seeds at your siblings is one of those vanishing summer images that sits right up there with playing kick the can, capture the flag and flashlight tag.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2020
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On this particular Saturday night, guests partook in many of the same activities (minus capture the flag), and the chocolate chip cookies.
—Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2013
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The activity is designed for the entire family and contains a wide variety of games such as capture the flag and team elimination.
—Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 2 Feb. 2018
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Other adult recesses feature scavenger hunts, tug-of-war, or capture the flag, all activities that require a little less blood, sweat, and tears than signing up for a softball league.
—Mimi Montgomery, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
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The games range from obstacle-course challenges and iterations of capture the flag to contests based on popular characters such as Peppa Pig and Sonic the Hedgehog.
—Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
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But this year will include not just a mock hospital but also a formal capture the flag hacking competition, and much more extensive hands-on hacking.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
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Games such as badminton, capture the flag, and spikeball require more physical exertion and hand-eye coordination than others.
—Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2022
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Crisis breeds innovation, and the difficulties of conducting in-person business during the pandemic have exposed office workers to a tactic once reserved mostly for camp counselors, or bosses with capture the flag captain energy: color coding.
—New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
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