Examples of hammer and sickle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web An Instagram post shared April 18 shows a collage of a man atop a building replacing a Ukrainian flag, which has a blue and yellow stripe, with a Soviet flag, which has a red banner and a golden hammer and sickle. — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022 Transnistria has its own flag, complete with a Soviet-style hammer and sickle, and a separate identity from the rest of Moldova. — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022 The red banner with that hammer and sickle has reportedly been waved by pro-Russian fighters in the breakaway region of Luhansk and adorned the sides of Russian military vehicles motoring to the front lines. — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 But this store used to sell a vodka that had a hammer and sickle on the bottle, and no one raised an eyebrow at that. — James Lileks, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022 Transnistria has its own flag, complete with a Soviet-style hammer and sickle, and its own makeshift currency that partly consists of plastic coins reminiscent of a board game. — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2022 Erected in 1981, the monument depicts a woman with a sword in one hand and a shield embossed with a hammer and sickle in the other. — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022 But this festive season, exactly three decades on, brings the gravest showdown between NATO and Russia since the red hammer and sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021 Some remained on Madison Street to scrawl messages, and the communist hammer and sickle symbol in chalk in front of CPS headquarters. — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022 See More

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