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-staff In A Sentence
- The flag in her memory is now being flown at half-staff over the US Congress.
- I believe that only the President may order flags flown at half-staff on Federal installations. Panetta releases statement on CIA casualties
- The blue United Nations flag with its white map of the world was lowered to half-staff.
- On May 5, 1866, the village was decorated with flags at half-staff.
- I further direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same periods at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations. Obama issues proclamation in Kennedy's honor
- All eight flags of the countries represented here are flying at half-staff tonight.
- I also direct that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff until sunset on the day of his interment. Obama issues proclamation in Kennedy's honor
- Jan Brewer ordered flags in the state to be flown at half-staff. Border Patrol agents killed pursuing suspected smugglers
- At the start of the ceremony, the flag was flying at half-staff in the former president's memory.
- The governor ordered all flags in Texas to be lowered to half-staff in tribute to the victims.
