How to Use black flag in a Sentence
black flag
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The next day, a black flag fluttered by the hospital entrance to mourn those killed.
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ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Others mourned as a black flag was raised over the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad.
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Jon Gambrell,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2026
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As the video moves on, an older woman runs around the car, which has a black flag with white writing draped across its windshield.
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Elmira Aliieva,
NBC news,
16 Dec. 2025
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Perhaps a hundred or so of them, dancing through the departure hall with their country’s red-white-and-black flags in the air.
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Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
9 June 2026
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City officials also proposed banning black flags at demonstrations.
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Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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In the end, the proposal backfired, as residents who harbored little interest in black flags began hoisting them as an assertion of their freedom of speech.
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Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Two people holding a black flag with white lettering on top of the Empire State Building in New York on Wednesday.
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Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
1 July 2026
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Mourners raised a black flag over the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad and the Iranian government declared 40 days of public mourning and a seven-day nationwide public holiday to commemorate Khamenei’s death.
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Jon Gambrell,
Fortune,
1 Mar. 2026
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