NOUN
- a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress
How To Use half-mast In A Sentence
- Flags flew at half-mast, pundits pontificated, and Americans watched replay after replay of airplanes flying into the World Trade Center. Ocean Robbins: Was 9/11 Really a Call to War?
- This morning, I shopped for a keyboard stand for my new iPal, learned how to use Pages, and e-mailed an animated love story involving octopi to my dad, all while my eyelids were still at half-mast. Suzan Colón: RIP: The... Pause
- Federal officials and foreign consuls indicated their respect for the former president partly by lowering their flags to half-mast.
- Flags were at half-mast everywhere on the day of the king's funeral.
- Jason pops out of the water and after raising his arms half-mast and breathing hard, he literally feels his way past the dock. Scab Boy is THE Source for Friday The 13th Fan Films! | Fan Cinema Today
- Flags were at half-mast everywhere on the day of the king's funeral.
- Flags were flown at half-mast, with a wreath of flowers laid at the base of the flag poles.
- Across the country, flags over public buildings and royal residences were flying at half-mast.
- Flags flew at half-mast and non-essential staff were told not to report for work.
- Hong Kong has lowered the national and regional flags to half-mast, to mourn the eight victims of Monday's hostage crisis in Manila.
