flag-waving
Example Sentences
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Last week, Iran held a send-off ceremony for the team in Tehran's central Enghelab Square with the players cheered by crowds of flag-waving supporters, footage on state TV showed.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Trump stepped on to a red carpet at the Great Hall of the People to hundreds of flag-waving children and a military band belting out the Star-Spangled Banner.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
A smiling Xi welcomed Trump at the Great Hall of the People for a red-carpet arrival ceremony featuring a military honor guard and flag-waving schoolchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan and all the indistinguishable flag-waving country singers no doubt had their uses, but no one imagined they had any connection to or understanding of 21st-century youth culture.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025
It was very different from the flag-waving, shouting bellicosity of his younger days.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
