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Example sentences for "pennant"

Lexicographically close words:
penknives; penman; penmanship; penmen; pennance; pennants; penne; penned; pennes; pennies
  1. Admiral's pennant at the mast-head of this same gallant frigate, the Neversink!

  2. On the following day, sinful man that I am, I did go to Sokólniki, and actually did see the tent with the pennant and the inscription.

  3. The pennant undulates like a serpent; the letters are gilded; any one can easily read them.

  4. But Pennant has surely told a great deal.

  5. He said, 'Pennant has greater variety of inquiry than almost any man, and has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done, in the time that he took.

  6. If the pennant be so long, it may reach farther than you wish!

  7. The gallows awaits the pickpocket; but your robber under a pennant is dubbed a knight!

  8. There are other vessels beside the brigantine, and a capricious fair may have sought a protector, even under a pennant of Queen Anne!

  9. I see two vessels anchored near the Lust in Rust, and if called upon to give my testimony before the Queen in Council, I should declare that the one which wears her royal pennant had done more wrong to her subjects than the stranger.

  10. Words no more, for hearken and see, My song is there in the open air, and I must sing, With the banner and pennant a-flapping.

  11. Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete, With the banner and pennant a-flapping.

  12. A red pennant signifies "storm approaching station," while a yellow pennant signifies "call at station for special information.

  13. Colonial armed vessels, while the pennant of the Royal Navy is purely white, with the exception of the Cross of St. George.

  14. Though the red, white, and blue stripes suggest the French tricolor, their employment in the pennant has, of course, no reference to France.

  15. There being some delay in execution, this had to be repeated, and further enforced by the pennant of the Stirling Castle, which, as the rear ship, should begin the evolution.

  16. The troops were commanded by Lord Cornwallis, the squadron by Nelson's early patron, Commodore Sir Peter Parker, whose broad pennant was hoisted on board the Bristol, 50.

  17. When the third approached, the master of the ship asked Commodore Richard King, whose broad pennant flew at her masthead, "What is to be done?

  18. Thomas Pennant was a naturalist six years younger than Gilbert White.

  19. It was compiled from letters addressed to Thomas Pennant and the Hon.

  20. Twenty minutes later, from the light cruiser Galatea, flying the broad pennant of Commander E.

  21. A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

  22. It was a sort of a little college pennant on a stick.

  23. They're having a pennant made in Catskill.

  24. In this same deep, dark forest clear across the northern part of the country lives Pekan the Fisher, also called the Pennant Marten and Blackcat.

  25. The pennant at the main is a distinguishing mark of a man-of-war, and it was considered disrespectful on the part of the master of a merchant vessel to wear a pennant in the presence of a cruiser.

  26. The pennant was again hauled down, but this time it was not left in the cross-trees.

  27. Accordingly, on this memorable day the gorgeous ensign was hoisted at the peak, the American jack waved at the fore-topmast head, and a long pennant fell in wavy folds from the main truck.

  28. He sent an officer alongside the American brig, who, in a peremptory tone, told the mate to cause that Yankee pennant to be hauled down immediately.

  29. The midshipman, finding it of no avail to continue the parley, told his cockswain to go aloft and "dowse the pennant and leave it in the cross-trees.

  30. The boat had hardly reached the man-of-war, when the pennant was again flying on board the American brig, and seemed to wave more proudly than before.

  31. I'll give every ounce of strength I possess In every game, to make that pennant float over Bannister Field!

  32. Her father is one of the high muck-a-mucks of the Black Pennant Line--owns oodles of stock.

  33. There was no other sign of life or occupancy; but certain it was that some sort of pennant fluttered in the breeze.

  34. Tell Mr. Howbridge to try to make the Horridole of the Black Pennant Line.

  35. Tess and Dot could not, of course, have climbed so high to fasten a signal of distress, even had they thought of doing such a thing; but this mysterious pennant seemed a promise that the island was occupied.

  36. Instantly, all hands were turned up, the bow guns run out and loaded, the ensign and broad pennant set, the yards squared by lifts and braces, and everything got ready to make a fair appearance.

  37. In the girl herself there was that which corresponded to the gorgeous pennant and the bronze cross.

  38. The pennant had been on the pole of the Ry's tent in far-off days in the Roumelian country.

  39. A pennant of many colours hung where two soft pink curtains joined, and at the window and over the door was an ancient cross in bronze and gold.

  40. Brand and Pennant both mention this, the latter stating that the cat or dog that has so done is killed without mercy.

  41. He had wanted to say it for a long time, and had determined that if his team won the pennant he would wait no longer.

  42. Several times they had won the pennant of the National League, and even when they failed they had always been up among the contenders.

  43. But I suppose they feel so good over getting the pennant that they take this means of showing it.

  44. And the fact that if they lost to-day their chance for the world's pennant was gone brought the excitement to a delirious pitch.

  45. He had been congratulating himself that with Hughson in the fine form he had showed that afternoon the world's pennant was as good as won.

  46. Not only had he twirled a superb game, but it had been his home run in the ninth inning after two men were out that had brought the pennant to New York.

  47. The race for the pennant had been one of the closest ever known.

  48. Ralph was the heaviest batter of the club, and on this particular occasion he conducted himself brilliantly, and the pennant was the property of the Criterions long before the fifth inning was completed.

  49. On the last test game--with the pennant almost ours?

  50. Over the door hung the purple pennant of the club, bearing in its center a broad, large "C.

  51. Pennant and others have drawn attention to the fact that this effigy has the "stigmata" or marks of Our Lord's wounds on his hands and feet.

  52. With his broad pennant folded over his arm, and accompanied by a younger brother and four seamen, he stepped into the small boat, which began pulling in the direction of the Niagara.

  53. He hoisted his pennant and the flag bearing the immortal words of the gallant Lawrence.

  54. Although Pennant spells the second Cateli with two letters of T, yet it has been published by others with only one; and as the name in both instances refers to the same person, I have adopted the latter course.

  55. Near the church, and now enclosed in a garden, stands an artificial mount, which Mr. Pennant conjectures to be coeval with Offa’s Dyke.

  56. Mr. Pennant gives a different account of his end.

  57. Mr. Pennant says {72} “Trevor Hall passed into the family of the Lloyds, and has continued in that family to the present time.

  58. A gentleman who knows the fact says, however, that it came to the Cuppers recently, through an intermarriage with a Miss Davies; and that Mr. Pennant was wrong informed.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pennant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banner; banneret; bunting; color; colors; ensign; flag; pendant; pennant; standard; streamer; symbol; tricolor