white flag

noun

Definition of white flag

1 : a flag of plain white used as a flag of truce or as a token of surrender

2 : a token of weakness or yielding

Examples of white flag in a Sentence

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Meanwhile, in a suburb of Anchorage, Micah Hahn and her team are looking for change by dragging tattered white flags through the weeds. — Bill Weir, CNN, "Alaska just had the most ridiculous summer. That's a red flag for the planet.," 9 Sep. 2019 Williams got under Pitkat, and the pair came to the white flag side-by-side. — Shawn Courchesne, courant.com, "Rage fuels Pitkat to dual wins at Thompson Speedway," 1 Sep. 2019 Your body is essentially waving a white flag of surrender. — Madeleine Burry, Good Housekeeping, "7 Self-Help Strategies For When You're Overwhelmed, According to Psychologists," 29 Aug. 2019 Video footage and photographs obtained by Reuters on Sunday showed the Grace 1 tanker flying the red, green and white flag of Iran and bearing the new name of 'Adrian Darya-1' painted in white on its hull. — NBC News, "Gibraltar rejects U.S. pressure to hold Iranian tanker," 18 Aug. 2019 Once a teacher blows a whistle and holds up a white flag, students will exit cars. — al, "‘Historic moment’ occurring Friday for Gulf Shores city schools," 6 Aug. 2019 After Diaz-Balart failed, twice, to make sense of entrepreneur Andrew Yang’s complex equation for keeping the middle class afloat, his glasses slid down his nose like a white flag of surrender. — Ed Stockly, latimes.com, "Reader letters: Let the Marianne Williamson debate rage on," 8 July 2019 Louisville's frigid weather has already eaten through about $18,000 of its $32,100 budget for the white flag program, according to Catherine McGeeney, a spokeswoman for the Louisville Homeless Coalition. — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, "As Winter Storm Hunter hits, Louisville shelter prepares to take in record number of homeless," 12 Jan. 2018 This isn’t to suggest the Padres simply wave a white flag. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: When teams call about closer Kirby Yates, Padres should listen," 8 July 2019

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