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How to use bunting in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Bunting means strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag. Example: “My favourite snow bunting song is the clearance song they make to land.”

More sentences with bunting

  • My favourite snow bunting song is the clearance song they make to land.2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 117. From the entry snow bunting
  • Soon the snow buntings will arrive, bringing song.2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 117. From the entry snow bunting
  • Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The…. From the entry hang
  • There were vast surging crowds in the Rue de Rivoli, and much bunting, and soldiers and gesticulatory policemen.1908, Arnold Bennett, chapter 4, in The Old Wives’ Tale, page 371. From the entry gesticulatory
  • A minute or two later, a female cirl bunting dropped down into the field in front of us, soon followed by a male.2010 July 19, Stephen Moss, “Birdwatch”, in The Guardian. From the entry cirl bunting
  • Karl and the boys snared all sorts of birds to cook on the spit fire — buntings and starlings, wild geese, mallards, and pigeons.2007, Constance Leeds, The Silver Cup, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry spit fire
  • When Sammy returned from Virginia, after an interminable gray trip back up U.S. 1, he found their house in Midwood aflutter with bunting.2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, London: Fourth Estate, Part 6, Chapter 3, p. 489. From the entry aflutter
  • Familiar summer-morning bird song rises from the trees, reeds and bushes – song thrush, wren, reed bunting and the rhythmic, steady, repeated “chit-chit-chit” of a reed warbler.2016 July 12, Rob Yarham, The Guardian. From the entry reed warbler
  • Some of these books contain illustrations of this flag; nevertheless there is not, nor has there ever been, bunting of any shape or size named a pavon.1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, page 183. From the entry pavon
  • BUNTING favours more rigid isolation of actual cases and avoidance of large assemblies - particularly children's film matinées which he described as a Clapham Junction for virus dissemination.1948, The Lancet, page 114. From the entry Clapham Junction

Meaning of bunting

  1. noun Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
  2. noun A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
  3. noun Flags considered as a group.

Full definition of bunting

Questions about bunting in a sentence

How do you use bunting in a sentence?
Bunting is used as a noun. For example: “My favourite snow bunting song is the clearance song they make to land.”
What is a short sentence with bunting?
“Soon the snow buntings will arrive, bringing song.”
What does bunting mean?
Bunting means strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bunting (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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