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How to use pennant in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Pennant means the broad pennant flown by commodores. Example: “The New York Yankees have won the American League pennant far more often than any other team.”

Examples of pennant by meaning

nounThe winning of a competition, represented by a flag.

  • The New York Yankees have won the American League pennant far more often than any other team.

More sentences with pennant

  • The team came through in the end and won the pennant.From the entry come through
  • The pennants whipped in the wind.From the entry whip
  • Louis to assist in a pennant race with Brooklyn—which, not coincidentally, was also a “syndicate” team.2011, David H. Martinez, “Teams, Leagues, and Other Groups”, in The Book of Baseball Literacy: Nearly 700 People, Places, Events, Teams…. From the entry crappitude
  • I walked steadily toward the pennant pole amid a sea of susurrus murmurings.2007, Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry susurrus
  • From drooping at half-mast, his personal pennant was faffling away in a whole new wind.2007, Simon Leigh, Wild Women. From the entry faffle
  • There was a crest, a threemasted ship, sails unfurled, pennants flying.1936 June 5, Margaret Bell Houston, “Gypsy Weather”, in The Lincoln Star, volume 34, page 2. From the entry threemasted
  • S. flag that ornaments the grounds in lieu of a pennant.1913 August 10, Jerry Mack, “Knell of Day Terminates Game in the Ninth With No Decision; Umpire Sullivan Calls Off Fray With Score Even Up…. From the entry hecticity
  • Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St.2014, Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls, Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian, McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN…. From the entry street
  • There was a pennant chase that year that would stick in his craw and the craw of every Phillies fan forever.2005, Robert Gordon, Tom Burgoyne, Movin on Up. From the entry stick in someone's craw
  • The last game I rode the train from downtown to was the game where the Cubs won the pennant in the year they won the World Series.2023 February 9, okeefe4prez, “Who’s Going To Wrigley?”, in Hawkeye Nation, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024. From the entry nuts to butts
  • A publicity plane flew along the Croisette, its pennant fluttering like the trace of a fibrillating heart, unnoticed by the sunbathers stretched in their loungers in the hotel concessions.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 107. From the entry fibrillating
  • The distinguishing signal of Swedish ice breakers is a quadricolored pennant displayed at the yardarm by day and a violet light shown at the yardarm at night.1952, United States Hydrographic Office, H.O. Pub, number 44, page 28. From the entry quadricolored

Meaning of pennant

  1. noun The broad pennant flown by commodores.
  2. noun The church pennant indicating religious services are taking place aboard ship.
  3. noun The commissioning pennant flown on ceremonial occasions.

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Questions about pennant in a sentence

How do you use pennant in a sentence?
Pennant is used as a noun. For example: “The New York Yankees have won the American League pennant far more often than any other team.”
What is a short sentence with pennant?
“The pennants whipped in the wind.”
What does pennant mean?
Pennant means the broad pennant flown by commodores.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pennant (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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