The word "pennant" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a flag or banner, especially one that indicates a championship or victory in sports.
Example: "The team proudly raised their pennant after winning the championship."
Alternatives: "Flag" or "Banner."
"We're in the middle of a very important pennant race.
Eager to project the positive side of their country, the players were especially angry that they did not even have a pennant with which to perform the traditional exchange with opponents before kick-off.
In America, a Republican or Democratic national convention is a cousin, but five times the size and much more tolerant of razzmatazz: think of the difference between a baseball pennant game and a cricket test match.Meeting in these great cities of the midlands and the north have changed the feel of these gatherings.
The flags he intended to plant on Gurla Mandhata, 25,300 feet high and straddling unmapped Nepal and Tibet, included not only the red dragon of Wales and the blue pennant of the UN, but the skull and crossbones, in honour of swashbuckling and privateering.
The first was baseball's "shot heard around the world"—a spectacular ninth-inning home run, scored by Bobby Thomson, that won the pennant for the New York Giants and humiliated their ancient enemies, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Athletics captured a third title in 1913, and the following season Collins won the Chalmers Award, the equivalent of today's Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, after leading the Athletics to their fourth American League (AL) pennant in five years (the team was denied a fourth championship by the Boston Braves in the 1914 World Series).
Another traditional bread is sangak, a pennant-shaped loaf a metre long, baked on an oven of roasting pebbles.
The pennant-wing nightjar (Cosmetornis vexillarius), in contrast, nests in the Southern Hemisphere south of the Congo forests during the austral, or Southern Hemisphere, summer, then starts north with the onset of the rainy season.
In 1915 Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, bought Jackson for $65,000; he thus became the star of the pennant-winning club.
DeLillo received significant acclaim for the sprawling novel Underworld (1997), which provides a commentary on American history and culture in the Cold War era, in part by tracing the imagined journeys of the baseball that New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hit for a pennant-winning home run in 1951.
The group were caught unawares by Harding's resignation, which was forced by Murdoch, with Pennant-Rea believed to be particularly unhappy about his ousting.
