Rather than hold it with the brakes, he took it out of gear just as the flag dropped.

If there is a visiting head of state, that country's flag may be set second in precedence, all other flags dropping a rank.

The yellow flag dropped, and the individual ironman competition was under way.

This spring, retirees are in pole position as the flag drops for the busiest part of the housing market year.

The current flag, adopted in 1972, dropped the golden map and kept everything else.

The other morning, I looked out the south window to see if the flag had dropped on our rural mailbox.

Then the entire company joined in, while a huge American flag, all 33 stars blazing, dropped from the proscenium.

At the end of the course, a flag dropped.

With one and a half minutes gone, the flag dropped and Hathcock fired.

He had two seconds left for the next five moves to time control, and his flag dropped as he played 40 Qe5.