How to Use capture the flag in a Sentence

capture the flag

noun

• 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
• This is the first time SpaceX’s timetable to capture the flag is later than Boeing’s.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2018
• Give the fight purpose and structure by adding a game like capture the flag or freeze tag.
  — Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fred's House was also the congregation site for nighttime capture the flag.
  — Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2013
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024