Sentence examples for hold a flag from inspiring English sources
This is how you hold a flag.
Hostages were made to hold a flag up at the cafe's window which appeared to bear the shahada, an Islamic affirmation of the oneness of God, reading: "There is no god but the God, Muhammad is the messenger of God".
The son, an apprentice plumber, has been held at the Lindt Chocolate Café in the Australian city by the perpetrator who has forced an undisclosed number of hostages to hold a flag to the window similar to that of the Islamic State.
A more commanding presence is "Liberty" (1879), a wood pattern for making weathervanes; it is almost four feet tall, in the shape of a noble-looking woman in a flowing dress, left arm raised in a kind of salute and the right poised to hold a flag.
An Iranian-born gunman burst in, took 17 workers and customers hostage, and forced some to hold a flag with an Islamic declaration of faith above the shop window's festive inscription of "Merry Christmas".
Also on Monday, Torfaen council will hold a flag-raising ceremony at the civic centre in Pontypool, as will Wrexham council at the town's Guildhall.
He was standing next to his 8-year-old son, who also held a flag.
"Look," he said, holding a flag folded neatly into a triangle of blue and white.
She can be seen waving what looks like a can of "silly string" into the air and holding a flag.
Photos on Mr. Kamphuis's Facebook page show him holding a flag in front of the bunker, like a freedom fighter defending his redoubt.
