How to Use white flag in a Sentence

white flag

noun
  • The white flag had been raised.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • When the moon swept across the night sky, up went my white flag.
    — cleveland, 11 May 2021
  • Plough isn’t waving a white flag here.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Once again, Woody waves the white flag, not just once but twice.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • This white sheet, this white flag, a shroud instead of the sun?
    — Abe Beame, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Pink, blue, and white flags waved in background in a nod to trans rights.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Across the pond, a few days later, a woman waved a white flag.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2020
  • That's when your cheap earbuds wave the white flag in defeat.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But that Instagram post might as well be a white flag.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Williams got under Pitkat, and the pair came to the white flag side-by-side.
    — Shawn Courchesne, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The key is not to wave a white flag before the roll has been completed.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • At the deadline, the Warriors could have waved the white flag.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Such calls amount to a white flag of surrender from the central bank.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Gregg Popovich waved the white flag midway through the third quarter.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The men were holding a makeshift white flag when they were shot, the military said.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • And then the buck bounded away, the white flag of its tail receding through the brush.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • So there were the drivers with the white flag being waved, pulling off the track into the pits.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • At the first sign of adversity, the Dawgs waved the white flag.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In the rehearsal space in London, a red and white flag hangs in the window.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • In the eyes of many, Boston had waved the white flag of defeat and simply quit.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Nearby, a white flag fluttered in the breeze under a Haitian flag in a sign of peace.
    — MartÍn Adames AlcÁntara and DÁnica Coto The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Landen Lewis led at the white flag but couldn’t hold off Reif on the final lap.
    — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The white flag soon signaled the last lap lay ahead and Bell seamlessly held on for the win.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • These aren’t last year’s Beavers, who put up the white flag any time an opponent chose to run the ball.
    — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Williams kept with Bonsignore at the restart and tucked in behind him coming to the white flag.
    — courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Late in the second quarter, Popovich had all but waved the white flag and emptied his bench.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2021
  • Newman, who held the lead as the field took the white flag, got turned while racing for the win, and his No.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Say the Clippers wave the white flag and start reaching for the reset button.
    — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • If not for Mobley, USC might’ve waved the white flag right then.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • For others, waiving the white flag on a season can never be deemed worthwhile.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2025

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