Example Sentences

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When displayed at the same location on separate poles, the code says, they “should be displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs of the same height” and “the flags should be of approximately equal size.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Mitchel Square in Washington Heights is named for him, and the two commemorative flagstaffs in the plaza in front of the main public library on Fifth Avenue memorialize Mitchel.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2011

Some P.W.s wielded crude, homemade flagstaffs, their jagged points torn from beer cans.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no official holiday, but by spontaneous consent flags fluttered from flagstaffs from the Falkland to the Orkney Islands, from the Beaufort Sea to Tasmania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Willows became elms, a settler's shanty rose like a shot-tower—towns hitherto unseen swam and palpitated in the yellow flood of light like shaken banners low-hung on unseen flagstaffs.

From The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota by Garland, Hamlin