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flagpole

/flag-pohl/US // ˈflægˌpoʊl //UK // (ˈflæɡˌpəʊl) //

旗杆,旗桿,旗舰

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a staff or pole on which a flag is or can be displayed.

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Examples

  • I always thought of trees like flagpoles, vertical, not horizontal and beneath us, holding us up.

  • Other subjects of discussion were the proper length and brand of zip ties for detaining members of Congress and how to use a flagpole and other objects to attack police officers.

  • Videos show the group pummeling the wood-and-glass doors with a helmet, feet and a flagpole.

  • One group of officers was left stranded, separated from their riot gear, which sat unused on a parked bus near the Capitol while unprotected officers endured beatings with metal pipes and flagpoles.

  • Once inside, they used pipes, flagpoles and other weapons to shatter windows and break furniture.

  • She described the way she and Igor watched the Donetsk flag go up and down the flagpole in front of their window.

  • Then the huddles break, and the 200 or so children join hands in a ring around the flagpole.

  • The knots were so plentiful that the thread stood up like a gnarled flagpole.

  • Mrs. Noah turned pale and the Weathercock shifted about uneasily on the top of the flagpole.

  • "Someone has been making a flagpole," said the Angel, running the toe of her shoe around the stump, evidently made that season.

  • I painted a flagpole on a barn up in Massachusetts where there was four hundred dollars in gold hidden under the weather-vane.

  • Then it took a long jump straight down Wall Street, smashed a flagpole to slivers, and vanished.

  • And so you walk right up the building or church or flagpole, and the smoother the surface the easier you go up.