BANNER in a Sentence

Learn BANNER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

25 example sentences for BANNER, such as:

1. Theirs is the banner in my hand.
2. The patriots fought under the banner of freedom.
3. The demonstrators carried banners bearing various slogans.
4. A shaft of light like a yellow banner sloped from roof to floor.
5. The red top refers to the color of the banner at the top of the paper.

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 Meanings and Examples of BANNER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
banner
 n.  flag; sign; a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  A shaft of light like a yellow banner sloped from roof to floor.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  A huge black banner, which floated from the top of the tower, announced that the obsequies of the late owner were still in the act of being solemnized.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  But above the gate was another banner, on which the figure of a white horse, rudely painted, indicated the nation and rank of the deceased, by the well-known symbol of Hengist and his Saxon warriors.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  Theirs is the banner in my hand.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART TWELVE
5  And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART TWELVE
6  It is seen also that she is ready and willing to follow a banner if only someone will raise it.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE ...
7  While tearing down the banner he had received a sword-cut across his face.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
8  He arrives with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9  There's a demand for socks just now, added Jo, waving hers like a big blue worsted banner as they parted at the gate.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
10  Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
11  As he stepped past the generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and stumbled over it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
12  The newly plowed fields were black banners fallen on the distant slope.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
14  The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  Ay, that was a day of cleaving of shields, when a hundred banners were bent forwards over the heads of the valiant, and blood flowed round like water, and death was held better than flight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  The red top refers to the color of the banner at the top of the paper.
2  The patriots fought under the banner of freedom.
3  True, it had not been a banner year for Republican candidates, thanks to the resignation of President Nixon that summer.
4  The demonstrators carried banners bearing various slogans.