Half Mast

House Speaker John Boehner ordered the flag at the Capitol to be flown at half-mast. ❋ Neil King (2011)

The girls bragged each customer left with his organ at half-mast, a selling point for sailors who anchored boats offshore. ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)

The U.S. flag is otherwise flown at half-staff (or half-mast, on ships) when directed by the President of the United States or a state governor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Flags flew at half-mast across the country to mark a day of remembrance, as the first victims of the massacre were put to rest. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Not petrified forest excited, but still more than half-mast. jess says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hance, 51, had no previous criminal record before the outburst late Sunday morning and his death in a shootout with police in Copley, where a flag flew at half-mast Monday outside the home where the carnage began. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even rounding a corner might bring a sudden glimpse of a flag lowered to half-mast. ❋ Sophia Hollander (2011)

In a letter, Blatter also said that the Wales flag at Fifa headquarters in Zurich was flying at half-mast. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Jason pops out of the water and after raising his arms half-mast and breathing hard, he literally feels his way past the dock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, that and the erection that was standing at about half-mast. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Flags flew at half-mast, pundits pontificated, and Americans watched replay after replay of airplanes flying into the World Trade Center. ❋ Ocean Robbins (2012)

Another sees men double as flags, suspending their bodies horizontally from flagpoles with muscles straining to stay at half-mast, a sign of mourning. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He ordered flags to fly at half-mast and that Hoover's body lie in state in the Capitol. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It was preceded by a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, "9/11/01" was painted in white next to the blue court to commemorate the 10th anniversary, and the U.S. flag atop Arthur Ashe Stadium was at half-mast. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 (2011)

The flag at the Barracks flopped dismally at half-mast. ❋ Unknown (2010)