How to Use pennant in a Sentence

pennant

noun

• The Red Sox won the American League pennant in 2004.
• Tops on the list, of course, is the 1951 pennant race between the Dodgers and the Giants.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The Phillies won the pennant and will meet the Astros in the World Series.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• The Padres hope their spending pays off in a pennant for the first time since 1998.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The moment the ball left the bat, Contreras jumped out of the dugout like the Cubs had won the pennant.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
• The Yankees have made the playoff five years in a row but haven’t won the pennant since 2009.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Orosco threw all sliders and struck out Bass to win the pennant.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• The two times the Padres won a pennant, they got fed into a wood chipper.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
• Get your Guardians garb now as Cleveland races for the pennant.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• The Astros won the American League pennant for the third time in five years.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• He’s been to the playoffs five times but never won a pennant.
  — Jake Seiner, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• Baker won a pennant with the 2002 Giants then fell to the Angels in the Series.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
• The pennant belonged solely to the Sox after a loss by the Detroit Tigers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
• There could be one of Trench’s Fenway Park pennants hanging in the rafters.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• The Mets, at the time counted out of the pennant race, eventually won it.
  — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
• Time for the Orioles to win the American League pennant.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• How then, could a team with such front-line talent be a clear also-ran in the pennant race?
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Leave your tents, canopies, stakes, pennant lines, and hammocks at home.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2022
• That might be enough to earn the Padres – the surprise West Coast version of the free-spending Mets – their first pennant since 1998.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
• This is an air show and such things are banned by the FAA Leave your tents, canopies, stakes, pennant lines, and hammocks at home.
  — The Courier-Journal, 17 Apr. 2023
• With the season winding down in a tight pennant race, the Cubs and Giants were tied 1-1 in the ninth inning at the Polo Grounds.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• And their lone pennant and World Series title was in 2002.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The injured list might have a more dramatic effect on the pennant races than the trade deadline.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2022
• Boring doesn’t sell, and the Yankees cannot even pretend to be pushing for a pennant.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• One fan smuggled in enough snow to build a snowman in a vacant box seat, a blue-and-white pennant in its icy grasp.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
• Armed with bullhorns and cowbells, fans took to the streets, whooping and waving pennants.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
• But going from the bereft Nationals to the trade block to a pennant race in a dizzying two weeks last summer came at a cost.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• Rewind 22 more years, and there were 20 teams and no divisions, just two pennant winners in the World Series.
  — The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2023
• The one stress test these new rules haven’t faced yet is genuine high stakes: a pennant race, a playoff game, the final out of a World Series.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• For managers, anyone to manage a pennant winning team makes the cut.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024