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Example sentences for "hauled down"

  • Unless the German Ensign is hauled down on board the Pelikan within an hour I will open fire.

  • Semmes and Kell both aver that the Kearsarge fired five shots into them after their flag had been hauled down.

  • On being furnished with these particulars, Captain Jordan was informed that his ship was a prize to the Alabama; they ordered the flag to be hauled down, which was also done on board the Alabama, she hoisting in its place the Confederate one.

  • Lieutenant Kell denies that there was any firing of the Alabama's guns after the colors had been hauled down, and that her discipline would not have permitted it.

  • Two days later the officers, with a hundred sailors and marines, returned and demanded that the flag be hauled down.

  • The last British flag having been hauled down, an officer was sent to take possession of the "Confiance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after taking; always represented; certain articles; divine life; each angle; explained away; foreign enemy; given them; hauled down; long face; marine boilers; military salute; much enlarged; musical sounds; our friends; remove every; ride herd; sacred place; sore throat; spend their; taken prisoners; would mention