Sentence examples for flown the flag from inspiring English sources

Other cities in similar straits have flown the flag of parley rather than the Jolly Roger, and to better effect.

She should have "flown the flag" in Haiti, grumbled the French Europe minister, Pierre Lellouche, sighing that, alas, "not everybody is Nicolas Sarkozy".

A neighbor explained that every August 12th, the former owners had flown the flag to celebrate the opening of the grouse season in Scotland.

Robert Peston, Paul Mason, Stephanie Flanders, Aditya Chakrabortty et al, have flown the flag of clarity in recent years, and make the best of the material they're given.

The Alberta and Ontario provincial governments, as well as the Toronto city hall, have broken with the federal government and flown the flag at half-staff in honor of the four soldiers.

He would be the plucky small-town loser who had flown the flag for weekend sailors everywhere taking on the world's most gruelling endurance test and making it home to his loved ones..

Then Durham flew the flag for Britain.

Saturday we're flying the flag".

Who would fly the flag of normality?

The performer flying the flag for Britain?

The Dozenal Society of Great Britain still flies the flag in the UK.