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flag waving

NOUN
  1. an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions

How To Use flag waving In A Sentence

  • The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted.
  • I did a quick head count of the folks clustered around the coffin and the balance of the tricornered hat, flag waving, proponents of limited government, arrayed up the steps to the front doors of town hall. Suzanne Langlois: The Many Flavors of Kool-Aid��
  • What can be said is we often neglect to recall the dispossession of the natives in Iowa and further east, which amid today's flag waving today is equally important. Blog for Iowa
  • They had a parade and it took a long time ... there was flag waving, and they had pandals in arches across the road, and the people expressed their gratitude in no uncertain terms and we understood what they were trying to express despite the fact we didn't understand all they were saying. Ceylon and the Colombo Plan
  • Its front page depicted Johnson's Olympic flag waving antics with the headline "Don't drop the baton Boris!
  • Locog, sponsors and coalition politicians, desperate for the Games to succeed both on their own terms and as a mid-term injection of flag waving optimism against a gloomy economic backdrop, must walk an increasingly fine line between encouraging them to get on board and hectoring them to do so. All is not well ahead of London 2012 as the public remain isolated | Owen Gibson
  • Re yesterday’s ‘bunty’, just for clarification, did I inspire this by ranting about flag waving bogan fucktards or by being one? Cheeseburger Gothic » That went well.
  • But that was a single day and the Olympics – together with the torch relay, Diamond Jubilee, Festival 2012 cultural programme and the Paralympics – is part of a summer-long orgy of flag waving. Olympic year is almost here – but are we ready for it? | Owen Gibson
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