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Definition

a flag given to a champion as an award

or:

a triangular flag (often used for nautical signals)

The underdog baseball team won the pennant after 162 hard fought games.

pennant = a flag given to a champion as an award

with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass

pennants = flags

Where's the pennants?
Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

pennants = triangular flags

We crossed a dirt courtyard, where pieces of clothing hung like pennants from a wire, and entered a dilapidated hut like all the others.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
The Canadian wind would whip us about like pennants.
ZZ Packer -- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Our beloved and despised Redskins were already in football training camp; the Orioles were out of the pennant race again.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
It was a brown boyish room; disordered dresser, worn books, a high-school pennant, photographs of basket-ball teams and baseball teams.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
It's beautiful, pennants flying from turrets and a winding climb to its drawbridge.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
The sun shone brightly and pennants fluttered in the light wind.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
Its distance still kept us from distinguishing the colors of its pennant, which was fluttering like a thin ribbon.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
That Boston deserved another pennant.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
On the walls of the school's corridors are hundreds of pennants from the colleges that KIPP graduates have gone on to attend.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Pennants fluttering in an empty doorway.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Listen to Mr. Thompson!" said pennants on government cars, "Don't give up!
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Her least favorite barons were those whose loyalties seemed to change directions the way a pennant blew in a shifting wind.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
Eugene took all the pennants from the wall and folded them.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He seemed more likely to strip the wheels from a patrol car than to paint the windshield black or hang his shirt like a pennant from the antenna.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
During all of pennant fever, they went about their work cutting lawns and raking leaves serenading each other: John-ny Damon, how I love him.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
He had four hundred Ligaroti pennants printed up in the horse's colors, cerise and white polka dots, and attached to canes for waving.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
They hold a pennant to suggest fire.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing

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