How to Use flag-waving in a Sentence

flag-waving

noun

• The flag-waving car cruising is nothing new, dating back to the 1970s.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• This isn’t a rally in front of a Confederate flag-waving crowd of acolytes.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
• Motorists driving up and down Sixth Avenue honked in support of the cause throughout much of the flag-waving and speeches.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• All that cheering and smiling and flag-waving suggests fun is being had.
  — David Rind, CNN, 3 July 2024
• Steinmeier and Charles then strolled past the cheering, flag-waving crowd, shaking hands and chatting briefly with people.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber and Danica Kirka, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• From flag-waving neighborhood parades large and small to some of the best fireworks displays in America, Texans do it right.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 4 July 2023
• Biden announced his reelection bid in April with a video that opened with imagery of flag-waving, Trump supporters at the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• Gone was the usual human backdrop of flag-waving supporters seen at MAGA rallies.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 2 June 2024
• One darkly funny scene finds a Trump flag-waving homeowner in Wisconsin incensed with the Democrats for overturning Roe.
  — Adam Fleming Petty, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• He was sent to a patriotic camp near the capital where flag-waving staff praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and tried to teach him nationalistic songs.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• After Disposti’s remarks, the entire group of flag-waving Pride supporters quietly walked out of the council chambers, leaving almost no one but city staffers in the room with council members.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
• The evening ends with a bellowing of patriotic tunes, with attendant flag-waving, blasts of confetti, balloon-popping, and choreographed silliness.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The edits made for a clumsily uneven work of vestigial intimacy and blunt, bombastic flag-waving.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Still, previous Presidents, in similar binds, have faced significant pressure almost entirely from flag-waving nationalists on the right; Biden is now being cross-pressured from his left, and this seems to be having an effect.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024