Sentence examples for line of flags from inspiring English sources

But amid the crumbling masonry, there is an incongruously neat little building, shaded behind a line of flags, with smartly outfitted security men behind its glass doors.

Then, slowly, I began to discern the line of flags running across the city, and traced my way from the red crescents of Turkey through the pale blue of the United Nations to the white-and-blue stripes of Greece.

Before the game, Villa's fans could be heard singing "sign them up" when a line of flag-waving mascots walked in front of their end.

Behind Chris, a long line of flag-wavers, trumpet-blowers and placard-carriers troop their way along the side of the Thames, heading for the heart of the capital.

When five or more flags are displayed in a line, two national flags should appear at both ends of the line (e.g., in a line of five flags, the national flag should appear as the first flag and the fifth flag).

But it's the possibility of news being made that helps other editors justify dispatching reporters to the front lines of flag-strewn parade routes or meet-and-greets at the local diner.

When the flag is carried in a procession with other flags, should be either on the marching right (the flag's own right) or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.

He vexed the vestrymen of St . Pauls by hanging a line of American flags across the street from the museum to a tree in the churchyard.

The ceremony over, the flag was hauled down to be transferred to a pole at the far end of the long line of national flags in front of the UN headquarters.

But it will also require Nick to ignore a line of red flags — the car's been torched, a mysterious teenage girl is missing, the friend's father is satanic and probably a murderer — unseen since the Beijing Olympics.

In a line of many flags, moreover, most experience this reduced drag in turn, making the whole group more aero- (or hydro-) dynamic.Inverted slipstreaming of this sort could have some counterintuitive effects.