Pennant Definition Adjective

Those cannon shots and trembling pennant brought a scene back to the four corners years earlier. With a pennant, a season in play, several pitchers would have taken the hit without hesitation. Oxford Advanced Learner`s Dictionary Pennant Name Definition Although they arrived in town in the midst of an ongoing pennant race with the unpredictable Giants, this year`s Dodgers imports didn`t come as a savior. After the Red Sox came back from three games to nil to snatch the pennant from the Yanks, Boston would have won this World Series even if Shoeless Joe Jackson`s ghost team had emerged from the cornfield. Historic pennant races give rise to fascinating tales, none more fantastic than the Red Sox fairytale season of 2004. The New York Yankees won`t even make the playoffs, let alone win the American League pennant or the World Series. Between sunset and colors, they should carry a night pennant. Nautical pennants were the original triangular or tapered flags, and they still fly on most active warships. Sports pennants also have a long history and were once often awarded in the form of prizes or trophies and waved by fans in the stands during high school and college sporting events. Sports teams can still win a pennant, but pennants are often bought as souvenirs at games and end up on fan walls. The rudders had been lost, but the rudder of the boat was fortunately made fast by a pennant. A pennant is a long flag that shrinks at one end.

You might see a pennant flying on a warship, swinging through crowds of spectators at a baseball game, or hanging from a sports nursery wall. All is not lost, with Clint Thayer once again helping us to sit on our pennant! In the middle, almost unnoticed, the Yankees grabbed the pennant. The cat looked up, stretched and lazily climbed to his feet and followed him, his tail swaying like a pennant. Search for any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner`s Dictionary app. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.