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Meanings of pennant in English
Portuguese
flâmula Long triangular flag flown from the masthead of a warship.
Synonyms
Examples for "waft"
Examples for "waft"
1
The clinks of bits and stirrup-irons came down in a waft again.
2
Whistling, he let the escalator waft him into the still night air.
3
And then he was gone, with a final noxious waft of cologne.
4
The air is delicious, and a cool waft comes down the glacier.
5
Sighs shall waft thy ship of sighs over the sea of Tears.
1
Lisa Henson told the streamer to start adding zeroes to the budget.
2
At the end of each streamer a little tinkling bell is sewed.
3
He also has an animated film in the works for the streamer.
4
From the top of each pole a broad, gayly colored streamer waved.
5
Murphy's first show for the streamer, The Politician, will drop next month.
1
He held it up, hanging loose like a pennon from his hand.
2
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: chieftain; unconscious; booming; despair; fragments; pennon.
3
Wherever men rode the waters of the Three Rivers that pennon was known.
4
The leader wore knight's armor but showed neither pennon nor device.
5
From the stern hung a gilded shield and a crimson pennon.
Usage of pennant in English
1
Who do you think is going to win the pennant this year?
2
Another flag, a red pennant, was hoisted in place of the blue.
3
It's the last of the season and means the pennant for Worcester.
4
In truth, only one more victory was needed to clinch the pennant.
5
Along the banks no speeding train flung its smoke-pennant to the wind.
6
That was the pennant of victory- abroomtied to the highest chimney.
7
Ulan's ship was still riding at anchor, but the pennant was gone.
8
For a time, it appeared that the pennant race would energize him.
9
Boston lost both, and the Yankees won another pennant and World Series.
10
Commodore Dallas's pennant was flying in the Constellation when I joined her.
11
They put young Andrew in old Andrew's chair beneath the dusty pennant.
12
No team ever won a major league pennant unless it was lucky.
13
The brig Lawrence was Perry's flagship; Barclay's pennant flew on the Detroit.
14
A narrow bed occupied one corner, under a St. Louis Cardinals pennant.
15
And then it was suddenly a pennant of fire in the sky.
16
I'm going to stick on here and see the pennant race out.
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Pennant across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common