noun
Etymology
Origin of flagman
Example Sentences
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He was working as a flagman near Zabriskie Point, where road repairs require traffic control.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
If the one-lane construction zone was too long for the flagmen to see each other, one handed a flag to the last driver permitted through to give to the other flagman.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022
“In the beginning,” said Denzel Matthys, the flock flagman, “they’d run inside the garden and destroy all the vegetables.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2016
After adjusting the cap pistol strapped to his hip, he took a whirling cut that brought to mind a finish-line flagman or a revolving lawn sprinkler.
From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2016
As War Admiral walked to the line alongside the flagman and starter Cassidy, Woolf worked to fray the Triple Crown winner’s famously delicate nerves.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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