Examples of the Stars and Stripes in a Sentence
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By the time a Fourth of July barbecue rolls around and the Stars and Stripes accidentally goes up in flames, the burning flag can’t help but register as a barbed throwaway gag, aimed at America and its false promise of equality for all.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
Plans were underway for a big pro-Union demonstration in May 1861 when an anonymous threat posted outside the Bella Union warned that anyone raising the Stars and Stripes above the courthouse would be shot.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
At one point, his online store, Forbidden Apparel, offered a rather ornate Shaman American flag featuring an image of Jacob in full regalia superimposed onto the Stars and Stripes, his mouth open mid-chant, his staff with stainless-steel finial gleaming like a bayonet.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
The gateway to the park is the city of Macon, where the Muscogee (Creek) Nation flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes, and the street signs are being replaced with ones written in both Muscogee and English.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
On that occasion, the Stars and Stripes defeated El Tri 4-2 in Rome to secure a spot in the World Cup in Italy.
—Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
But the women wearing the Stars and Stripes are far from the only Americans making an impression in Australia and New Zealand.
—Lindsay Schnell and Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
But swinging around the Stars and Stripes is not a godly nor a Latter-day Saint mission.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
The flagpole bearing the Stars and Stripes sticks out of the ground at a precipitous angle, like a javelin that made a bad landing.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 June 2023
Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
Plans were underway for a big pro-Union demonstration in May 1861 when an anonymous threat posted outside the Bella Union warned that anyone raising the Stars and Stripes above the courthouse would be shot.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
At one point, his online store, Forbidden Apparel, offered a rather ornate Shaman American flag featuring an image of Jacob in full regalia superimposed onto the Stars and Stripes, his mouth open mid-chant, his staff with stainless-steel finial gleaming like a bayonet.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
The gateway to the park is the city of Macon, where the Muscogee (Creek) Nation flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes, and the street signs are being replaced with ones written in both Muscogee and English.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
On that occasion, the Stars and Stripes defeated El Tri 4-2 in Rome to secure a spot in the World Cup in Italy.
—Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
But the women wearing the Stars and Stripes are far from the only Americans making an impression in Australia and New Zealand.
—Lindsay Schnell and Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
But swinging around the Stars and Stripes is not a godly nor a Latter-day Saint mission.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
The flagpole bearing the Stars and Stripes sticks out of the ground at a precipitous angle, like a javelin that made a bad landing.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 June 2023
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