NOUN
- a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship
How To Use black flag In A Sentence
- Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
- However, he has struck a deal with the management and now his ensign, the black flag sporting the skull and crossbones, will be hung out each night.
- But these marines did see a black flag pop up all at once above a water tower about 100 yards away, then a second flag somewhere in the gloaming above a rooftop.
- As the knell died away, a black flag slowly rose up the mast and stopped half-way.
- Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
- My younger brother, Chris, was a little too determined to win at all costs and received the dreaded black flag for confusing go-karting and the dodgems.
- Beside him was another of the creatures, this one holding a large flagpole with a black flag hoisted to it.
- She was an outlaw; men called her a "corsair," and spoke of Semmes the captain as though he had been some ruffianly Blackbeard sailing the black flag with skull and cross bones for his grisly ensign. Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",
- Witnesses said the killers left a flag at the checkpoint, the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq.
- Only 165 of the Iraqi parliament's 275 lawmakers were present Tuesday, and only 110 voted for the new red, white and black flag with "Allahu Akbar" "God is great" in Kufic script, the ancient calligraphy developed in Mesopotamia. Hullabaloo