How to Use ensign in a Sentence

ensign

noun
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  • And all this happens there, in the solitude of reading, while the ensign takes a nap.
    — Phil Klay, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • As the British ensign was lowered to the tune of a navy band, Her Majesty was photographed blinking back tears.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Just what all those new ensigns and their proud parents wanted to hear.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 20 May 2017
  • The photo was a black-and-white portrait of England in his Navy ensign’s uniform.
    — National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
  • Half-hearted stints, in the next few years, as a legal apprentice and an army ensign proved just as abortive.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Courtesy of Michael Rosenberg Back then, for 18 long months at sea, the ensign didn't see a single woman.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The windbreaker, which always features the eagle ensign, used to be bluish-gray.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Cervantes could have made the ensign read the manuscript aloud to the licentiate.
    — Phil Klay, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Thankfully, the rest of the team shows up to arrest Wills, having gotten confessions from his men about the ensign's murder.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Her first tour as an ensign took her to Seattle for an assignment aboard an icebreaker, the Polar Star.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • Joshua Watson, an ensign, was one of the three people killed in Friday’s shooting, the Navy confirmed late Saturday.
    — Author: Katie Mettler, Marisa Iati, Derek Hawkins, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Then the team's called to investigate the murder of an ensign who was gunned down at the wheel of a truck transporting $3 million of black-market opioids that the Navy seized at sea.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • However, his chances of making the roster took a major hit last month when the Navy upheld his commission as an ensign.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
  • The graduates receive commissions as Navy ensigns or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps and serve at least five years.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018
  • In June 1954, Rumsfeld graduated and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy.
    — Robert Burns, ajc, 1 July 2021
  • The ensign was deconstructed and reimagined in hushed blue tones rather than the flag's typical combination of red, white and blue.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • Their initial success did not mean these groundbreaking black ensigns would be spared future slights.
    — Dan C. Goldberg, Time, 19 May 2020
  • Navy ensign Stanley Rosenberg, 93, recalls his crew pushing the wreckage into the ocean somewhere near the Philippines.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Melvin washes out, whereas Connell would become an ensign and train new recruits in New Orleans.
    — Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Kurita’s horizontal rain and naval-ensign sun were among the first 176 emoji.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018
  • After initially saying Kazuo was dead, the navy sent a higher-ranking officer to confide that the ensign was missing.
    — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • As the captain who gratefully received a steaming hot mug of coffee from his ensign on a ship pitching in heavy weather can attest, there is a leap of faith in accepting food from the hands of others.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
  • He was commissioned an ensign in 1963, and served aboard the USS Constellation as a nuclear weapons officer.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The assaults subsided when the U.S. escorted and reflagged foreign tankers under its ensign.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Its sleek ensign, usage and exterior appearance checks a lot of boxes.
    — Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Green 'is not at all himself' Mac observed, without realizing that the ensign had become a bottle of emotional poison.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Rows of long buildings sit behind a gate where three flags flutter: the company ensign and a Chinese flag, but also a South Korean one, reflecting the parent company’s home base.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Bolivian officials say the Bolivian navy's ensign held by participants along a highway on Saturday is the world's biggest — or at least longest — flag.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Following the attack on black parishioners by a white supremacist in a South Carolina church, all of Mississippi's public universities and many cities have stopped flying the ensign.
    — Kate Smith, CBS News, 29 June 2020
  • Samuel attended the Massachusetts Maritime Academy for two years and was commissioned an ensign.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022

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