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Harvey Danger "___ Sitta"
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flagpole
Alternative clues for the word flagpole
- Surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide
- Attachment to government buildings
- Standard bearer
- Sight at post offices
- Standard bearer?
- Schoolyard sight
- Used for sightings by surveyors
- One of many at the U.N. headquarters
- Place for a pennant
Word definitions for flagpole in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flag-pole , 1782, from flag (n.1) + pole (n.1). Flagpole-sitting as a craze is attested from 1927.
Usage examples of flagpole.
One of my clearest memories of that wretched weekend is the sight of Jerry Rubin standing forlornly on the steps of a marble building near the Capitol, watching a gang fight at the base of a flagpole.
Her captain would certainly see the wrecks on the eastern reef and be curious, but if he saw the gold and red flag of Spain flying from the flagpole in front of the houses at San Ildefonso and the garrison standing waiting on the wooden jetty with their lieutenant he would probably think all was well.
The listening post was set up in a secure room in the building, the operators hidden under the cover of communications specialists, and the antennas disguised as flagpoles.
I want Asher safe, I want to chase that flinching out of his eyes, but in the real world we are just running this up the flagpole.
Left behind: mounds of bones, mass graves, card files, flagpoles, party books, love letters, homes, church pews, and pianos difficult to transport.
The thing that had crashed down on the wall sawteeth was a thin, snow-white cylinder that looked troublingly familiar until Floyt placed it: a flagpole just like the one in their own garden, only its red, white, and blue flag displayed a coiled-rattlesnake emblem.
He stopped his horse under the flagpole from which the British flag drooped in the windless air, then waited as his company of red-coated sepoys divided into two units of two ranks each that marched either side of the flagpole.
You ended up getting whupped by a girl, stripped naked, and strung to a flagpole.
The camera switched to show the sky over Buckingham Palace with the empty flagpole in the foreground.
They fell quiet, Cameron squinting down the dark street, Lauren scowling at the marigolds blooming around the flagpole.
I was almost sober and my stomach was bunting towards third base instead of trying for the centerfield flagpole.
Astrid helped her, while Sharpe took Hopper and Clouter out to the courtyard where they sat under the flagpole.
The seaward side was dominated by two crenulated towers, one topped by a twenty-foot flagpole and flag, the other by an even taller TV mast.
Crows were covering the lampposts and flagpoles, and there were crows lying down in the gutters and resting between fence posts.
All over Langfuhr, in Schellmühl, in the Schichau housing development, from Saspe to Brösen, up Jäschkentaler Weg, down Heiligenbrunn, all around the Heinrich Ehlers Athletic Field, behind the crematory, outside Sternfeld's department store, along the shores of Aktien Pond, in the trenches of the municipal police, on certain trees of Uphagen Park, on certain lindens of the Hindenburgallee, on the bases of advertising pillars, on the flagpoles of the demonstration-hungry athletic field, on the still unblacked-out lampposts of the suburb of Langfuhr, Harras left his scent marks: he remained true to them for many dog years.