How to Use flagging in a Sentence

flagging

adjective

• When all else fails, a road trip can perk up the flagging spirits.
  — Jerry Shnay, Daily Southtown, 10 June 2019
• These two helped a flagging Parks and Recreation find its voice.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Both could use a convention boost to jolt their flagging campaigns back to life.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• The party had only just started and no one was flagging.
  — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 22 May 2026
• Profits have dropped amid high costs and flagging demand for gas turbines.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Price Club, meanwhile, was flagging.
  — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• The flagging tape that had been attached to it and the knot of rope were discarded on the floor.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
• This is called flagging and could be used to confuse predators and/or to warn other deer in the area.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2019
• The Fed cuts rates to juice a flagging economy and job market.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
• For children, red signs and flagging mark field after field mined by the Russians.
  — Susan Mathison, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
• The aim of all this is to perk up a flagging economy and the subpar inflation rate.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• Their plight paints a grim picture of the country’s flagging recovery.
  — Cao Li, WSJ, 19 June 2023
• Ovechkin, notably, didn’t mention flagging passion for the game as an issue.
  — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• That, coupled with the tabloids’ focus on his flagging health, frustrated him.
  — Nardine Saadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Chou describes a new world of wearables that not only treat disease but can revive a flagging brain.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 July 2017
• Housing sales are flagging and home prices are beginning to dip because of steep mortgage rates.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• Walgreens plans to close hundreds of stores by the end of 2025 to turn around its flagging sales.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2025
• Opportunistic founders looked to jump from one flagging hype cycle to the newer, shinier thing in tech.
  — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025
• Facing slowing sales growth and a flagging share price, Whole Foods was now clearly in play.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 21 May 2018
• That growth is at odds with lackluster levels of both new and existing-home sales, as well as flagging home-price growth.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• The French released him, but the arrest revived his flagging career.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• The task of turning around a flagging budget department store chain, however, was a tough one.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2022
• That explains how GameStop, a flagging brick-and-mortar video game seller, became a meme stock.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2021
• Marvel’s attempt to revive its flagging X-Men title with a new team of mutants.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• As if to revive potentially flagging interest along the way, something big would hit the stage almost on the hour.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• Our workflow—parsing, scoring, flagging edge cases—costs eight cents per candidate.
  — Byjonathan H. Westover, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• The most passionate topic that day, though, the flagging state of the BCIA.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 2 Feb. 2020
• The Buckeyes not only want to win but also want to give themselves as many chances as possible to fix their flagging offense.
  — Ryan Ginn, ajc, 16 Sep. 2017
• Many believe that, in turn, has given rise to a flagging passion for evangelization — the practice of spreading the faith.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
• China's rollout of measures to boost its flagging birth rate remains patchy and inconsistent, a team of researchers has found.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025