plant a flag
Frequency: 5.03.0 per million words
To place a flag firmly in the ground or on a surface, often to claim territory.
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- The explorers decided to plant a flag on the summit to mark their achievement.
- Astronauts were the first to plant an American flag on the moon's surface.
- The mountaineers will plant their national flag at the peak.
- Soldiers were ordered to plant the flag in the captured territory.
- The team celebrated by planting their team flag in the ground.
- Pirates would plant a black flag to claim the island as their own.
- The expedition leader chose to plant a flag marking the new discovery.
- After hours of climbing, they finally planted the flag at the summit.
- The colonists were eager to plant their flag on the new continent.
- Scientists planted a research flag to mark the study site.