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
• Some were armed with metal flagpoles, baseball bats, pepper spray, and stun guns.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 14 July 2024
• The flagpole outside their school won’t fly a Civil War symbol.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
• Outside, a statue of Flick with his tongue on the flagpole is a popular site for photos.
  — Wendy Fox Weber, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Hicks also was seen on video obtained from another defendant carrying what looked like a black flag on a white flagpole.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
• Some protesters climbed up the flagpoles in front of the station and replaced the American flags with Palestinian flags.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 25 July 2024
• In 2006, Trump, at his private club there, Mar-a-Lago, erected a flagpole that stood eighty feet tall.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
• This summer, Facebook user Clayton Owen Miles posted a photo of a flagpole rising above a golf course.
  — Eliot Kleinberg, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
• Photos posted on social media showed two folding tables flipped over and what appeared to be a canopy-style pop-up shade on the ground alongside a flagpole with pro-Trump banners that was knocked down.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
• The Confederate flag and its flagpole were put in place by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 12 Nov. 2020
• Police said that among the arrests were people — one from New York, the other from the District — who are charged with beating a person with a flagpole after that person tried to steal a sign.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 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 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
• 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
• Later that evening, the fire truck began to shake, and a flagpole near the vehicle snapped in two.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 May 2022

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024