Sentence examples for bunting from inspiring English sources

Whereas the route of last year's Tour de France was marked by yellow bicycles and bunting made from knitted yellow jerseys (22,000 in the Harrogate area alone), blue and yellow bicycles mark the Tour de Yorkshire route.

Houses were draped with red banners and bunting.

The paper reports:Mr Summers told the Echo he had contacted the Chamber of Trade and senior councillors and they had agreed that, in view of the short notice and the fact that streets were full of market traders on Saturday, it would not be possible to erect bunting.

He is gleeful that his business thrives for a few weeks as politicians demand bunting, banners, stickers and more.

The abiding impression is of amateurish goodwill, embarrassment, lots of bunting and in the absence of displays of public emotion an instinctive recourse to oceans of alcohol.

Officials hint it will not be long before China has some of these too.Ten years ago, the PLAN's 50th anniversary slipped by with little more than a few commemorative stamps and plenty of bunting.

Returning troops are greeted with a mixture of amateurish cheer, bunting and alcohol: there are endless reports of "champagne welcomes", an improbable "sherry reception" for commandos, and in Dorchester 1,000 free pints of beer.Three decades on, a new tolerance for public emotion has strict limits, however.

The country is covered in bunting.