semaphore

Whenever someone got into trouble, Barron would unfurl her semaphore flags and signal for help.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

And do we need so much semaphore to understand our relationships?

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

We also found semaphore flags, a vastly outdated way to communicate between units.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023

Mary stops by daily to deliver food, standing so far from me that we should use semaphore flags.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2022

It’s more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

And they’re off: Back from his spell in self-isolation and having passed all his Covid-19 tests, Christian Prudhomme emerges from his Skoda’s sun-roof and semaphores the signal to start to racing.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2020

It undermines the piety and ethical lapses in nonfiction mystery shows, while sharing with “Three Billboards” a belief in semaphores and that people aren’t any one thing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018

But he can slay without words: His eyebrows are semaphores, his left hand a weapon that can dismiss a subject with a quiver.

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2016

The kids on Bandstand mimicked its manual semaphores and danced to its perky rhythm, eerily similar to Bo Diddley’s signature chugging backbeat.

From Time ● Jan. 19, 2012

Sends and receives messages by means of semaphores and other visual signals.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

The start of today’s race has been semaphored and a group of six riders have attacked off the front of the bunch.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2019

With these ones ripped up and destroyed, and made into something else entirely, they perhaps semaphored a new era.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2014

Elsewhere in the opening episode nothing happened that wasn't first semaphored in the previous scene.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011

Then, languidly raising his hairy legs and wagging them like flags, the old hand semaphored a request for jam to a pal in the port mizzen.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had hardly made a cable's length, however, when the Captain received a message semaphored from the quay to the effect that his agent had secured enough goods to complete his freight.

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert

Even taskmaster Guardiola was spied clapping on the touchline at one point instead of being his usual manic semaphoring self.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016

The further we get from past events the more they seem to be wildly semaphoring messages to us about our news agenda.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013

Apple employees may not talk much, but they’ve been semaphoring pretty furiously lately.

From Forbes ● Jul. 8, 2011

In Newmarket, England, a racehorse auctioneer found himself unable to keep up with the spirited semaphoring of the bidders, finally suspended the auction, then learned that his patrons were swatting at a swarm of gnats.

From Time Magazine Archive

I half expected to see the few remaining insects circling him and semaphoring their romantic intentions.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly