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flagman

[flag-muhn] / ˈflæg mən /


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He was working as a flagman near Zabriskie Point, where road repairs require traffic control.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2023

If the one-lane construction zone was too long for the flagmen to see each other, one handed a flag to the last driver permitted through to give to the other flagman.

From Washington Post Jan. 20, 2022

“In the beginning,” said Denzel Matthys, the flock flagman, “they’d run inside the garden and destroy all the vegetables.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2016

After adjusting the cap pistol strapped to his hip, he took a whirling cut that brought to mind a finish-line flagman or a revolving lawn sprinkler.

From Golf Digest Sep. 25, 2016

As War Admiral walked to the line alongside the flagman and starter Cassidy, Woolf worked to fray the Triple Crown winner’s famously delicate nerves.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Current safety guidelines rely on communications and shared information between operators, rail operations controllers and, sometimes, flagmen posted on station platforms ahead of a work zone.

From Washington Post Mar. 24, 2023

The current warning system is built on communication between controllers, operators and often flagmen.

From Washington Post Mar. 7, 2023

If the one-lane construction zone was too long for the flagmen to see each other, one handed a flag to the last driver permitted through to give to the other flagman.

From Washington Post Jan. 20, 2022

Banks of roses on either side, bridges with piers of bronze, and flagmen clad in cloth-of-gold.

From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

No matter how late a train is, when an engine sees the tail-lights of her caboose ahead of her she stops and sends out flagmen.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes




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