NOUN
- a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress
How To Use half-mast In A Sentence
- As the flag fluttered at half-mast, worshippers sang the national anthem and signed a book of condolence.
- In his half-mast trousers, short-cut jacket and spiky wig, he looks like a delinquent Jack Horner.
- The university closed for three days as of Friday and flags are flying at half-mast in mourning of the rector's death.
- In Germany flags were lowered to half-mast at federal buildings.
- This morning, I shopped for a keyboard stand for my new iPal, learned how to use Pages, and e-mailed an animated love story involving octopi to my dad, all while my eyelids were still at half-mast. Suzan Colón: RIP: The... Pause
- Across the country, flags over public buildings and royal residences were flying at half-mast.
- It was a man whose pants were baggy with a zipper at half-mast.
- Hance, 51, had no previous criminal record before the outburst late Sunday morning and his death in a shootout with police in Copley, where a flag flew at half-mast Monday outside the home where the carnage began. Ohio gunman was in property dispute, neighbors say
- The palace flags were all flying at half-mast.
- The NFL flew flags at half-mast and held a moment of silence in memory of White.