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Example sentences for "flagged"

Lexicographically close words:
flagellation; flagellum; flageolet; flageolets; flagge; flagges; flagging; flaggon; flaggons; flaggy
  1. Yaé led her big companion along a broad-flagged path between a pollarded avenue.

  2. She was left waiting in a stone-flagged guard-room, where eight or nine policemen stared at her impertinently.

  3. Albinia turned aside with her to the flagged terrace path between the churchyard and vicarage garden, in the light of a half-moon.

  4. The church was handsome, though in the late style, and a good deal misused by eighteenth-century taste; and Albinia was full of admiration as Mr. Kendal conducted her along the flagged path.

  5. About one o’clock another distant signal shot tells one that the beaters have reached the top of the flagged ridge from the back, and now we can see them clearly outlined against the sky.

  6. The crest of the ridge is flagged off and so is the bottom, if it is at all likely that the chamois will attempt to break through in that direction.

  7. The drive is to begin sharp at 12 o’clock, and as the beaters, some forty or fifty in number, are far beyond the furthest limit of the drive on the other side of the flagged ridge, punctuality is very necessary.

  8. True it is that they are gloomy, on the outside at least,--dull brick rows with gravelled or flagged courtyards, but possessing withal a geniality which many more glaring and modern surroundings utterly lack.

  9. Spring Gardens, near Trafalgar Square, is no longer a garden, and is as dull and gloomy a place as any flagged courtyard in a less aristocratic neighbourhood.

  10. Berne is chiefly built of a whitish stone, like Bath stone, and has flagged walks arched over, like Chester.

  11. Joanna Baillie and her sister, most kind, cordial, and warm-hearted, came running down their little flagged walk to welcome us.

  12. In the flagged kitchen, Mrs. Railton and Lucy bustled about by the light of a lamp and the glow of the fire.

  13. Icicles covered the idle wheel, a snow cornice hung over the flagged roof, and water splashed softly in the half-frozen race.

  14. Large fires were needed to dry the moisture that condensed in the flagged kitchens and soaked the thick walls, but coal could not be got at a price the house-wives were willing to pay.

  15. We dropped the treasure car, the last lighted Pullman with the silver bricks in it, off on the siding where those crazy elopers flagged us.

  16. Where is Gr--where is the man who flagged the train?

  17. From across the small room Jerry, dressed as she had been when she flagged the train, contemplated him with unfriendly eyes.

  18. The train must be flagged before it reaches the X Y Z.

  19. Long before Zeb had set foot upon the flagged pavement of the patio, she had gone out into the verandah to receive him.

  20. Then came the measured tramp of heavy boots along the flagged interior.

  21. The stone-flagged chamber, in which the festive table, which has creaked under many a load of beef and venison, still stands in grandeur all unique, was in full glory then.

  22. All have six steps descending from the flagged passage to the dark drab, blistered low house-door under the steps.

  23. While he was talking, however, the attention of all the girls flagged a little.

  24. As Priscilla paused for a moment, the latch of the iron gate clicked sharply, and as a step sounded on the flagged walk, Martine rose quickly to her feet.

  25. So, drawing Priscilla's arm within hers, Amy led her up the narrow flagged walk toward the Convent School.

  26. Two steps to the west meant now that I was to go two paces down the stone-flagged passage, and this was the place indicated by the Ritual.

  27. A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house.

  28. In the full blaze of sunlight, coming straight up the flagged path towards her was a Stranger, wearing a white hat.

  29. The two men picked their way down the sanded steps again, then passing under a high creeper-covered gateway they followed a narrow, flagged path to the tanyard.

  30. Very thankfully Dorcas laid Stephen, now sleeping peacefully, down in the oaken cradle in the old woman's flagged kitchen.

  31. In later days many a 'mighty Meeting' was to be held in the big barn that adjoins the small whitewashed house with its grey flagged roof.

  32. No sooner had they departed down the flagged path than back flitted the bevy of girls again into the study, until the small room was full to overflowing.

  33. The horses never flagged till they drew up in the main street of Stonehaven.

  34. Douglas heard him pause for a few seconds, and then step sharply across the stone-flagged patio, from the other side of which he fancied he heard the sound of a low laugh and some words spoken in an undertone.

  35. He could see her, in fancy, tripping down the flagged path to him, with love and tenderness in her blue eyes, that dainty little figure with the head of flaming gold and the white neck.

  36. So, after waiting a time, he too turned towards the house and passed down the wide flagged pathway, and the man on the stone bench by the sundial let him pass unchallenged.

  37. He watched the rioting weeds, the broken sundial, the long pathway of flagged stone leading to the grim desolate house.

  38. Down the wide flagged pathway a girl was coming to him.

  39. Like a ghost herself, a very lovely spirit all in white, her little woollen slippers making never a sound on the old flagged pavement, she sped on her way.

  40. He followed the flagged pathway past the old sundial that had lost its gnomon, beyond the wild yew hedge and so to the lake, from which rose the slim figure of a stone girl and at her he stared long.

  41. Scarsdale walking softly on the turf, skirted the hedge and came out on the broad flagged pathway.

  42. Suppose you flagged the Empire State Express, or the Western Cyclone?

  43. It's the only time in my life that I've ever flagged a train, and I wouldn't have done it but for that scarab.

  44. If she's been run all that while, it's time she was flagged once or twice.

  45. The next moment de Chavasse had lifted the latch of the gate, crossed the short flagged path and now knocked loudly against the front door.

  46. He heard her light footsteps on the gravel, then on the flagged walk.

  47. Three steps led up straight into the dining-room from the flagged pathway which skirted the house.

  48. He paused with one foot still on the lowest of the stone steps, the other on the flagged path, his head bent, his hand upraised in the act of re-adjusting his broad-brimmed hat.

  49. His hand was on the latch, when he heard a faint sound from without: a girl's footsteps, timorous yet swift, along the narrow flagged path which led down the tiny garden gate.

  50. Nay, I care not," he rejoined roughly, jumping to his feet and kicking the chair aside so that it struck with a loud crash against the flagged floor.

  51. And the old woman escaping from all those who would have restrained her, walked rapidly through the doorway and down the flagged path rendered slippery with the sleet.

  52. Only when she reached the tiny gate at the end of the flagged path, did she realize that he was walking with her.

  53. Then they turned into the tiny gate and slowly walked with it along the little flagged path to the cottage.

  54. A helmeted GI blocked a doorway in a ruined building and flagged the tank; other GI's spewed from an aperture left by a shell; Dennison hesitated to stop the Lee under the riddled wall, yet he obeyed.

  55. It would seem to me that that, the availability of that information, ought to have flagged some interest some place in the State Department or the Passport Office.

  56. Semple had already turned away, and he only struck his cane on the flagged walk in answer.

  57. The massive door lay open as we entered the spacious hall flagged with marble and surrounded with armorial bearings.

  58. The small door opened just a little way, and they found themselves on a narrow stone-flagged path, leading into a square yard.

  59. While he and Bunting were having words, Daisy, leaving them to it, walked up the flagged path to the door where her stepmother was awaiting her.

  60. Then he also walked up the flagged pathway, and put his latchkey in the door.

  61. Mr. Sleuth must have been stooping down, for his tall, lank form had been quite concealed till he stepped forward from behind the low wall on to the flagged path leading to the front door.

  62. Then he opened the front door, and walked down the flagged path.

  63. Walking down the small flagged path outside, he flung open the iron gate which gave on to the damp pavement.

  64. She walked up the little flagged path wearily, and yet with a pleasant feeling of home-coming.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flagged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.