Sentence examples for flag drop from inspiring English sources

San Francisco supervisors authorized a fuel surcharge on Oct. 11, raising the "flag drop," or base rate, to $3.10 from $2.85, the second highest in the nation.

Updated at 11.27am BST 11.22am BST Flag drop The riders mass behind the caravan just outside York, and are then set free to roam on Yorkshire's roads (and later, small sections of Lancashire and Derbyshire too).

Updated at 11.27am BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.22am BST11 22 Flag drop The riders mass behind the caravan just outside York, and are then set free to roam on Yorkshire's roads (and later, small sections of Lancashire and Derbyshire too).

The flag drops and the race begins.

And on a racetrack, I couldn't stop lapping until the last checkered flag dropped.

The ten horses and riders line up, the flag drops and they're off.

Hamlin stopped in the middle of the track when the green flag dropped.

Then the green flag drops — and the villain ahead tries to pull away.

On Jan . 24 , 2009a rusting freighter flying a Hong Kong flag dropped anchor in the South African port of Durban.

When the flag drops on the Pocono 500, Rusty Wallace will lead the 43-car field to the green flag.

"When the checkered flag dropped," Franklin Scott said Sunday at a news conference in Martinsville, "I heard a big boom from heaven, and my daddy said, 'Hell, yeah.' ".