semaphore
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Whenever someone got into trouble, Barron would unfurl her semaphore flags and signal for help.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
We also found semaphore flags, a vastly outdated way to communicate between units.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023
You’ve probably seen the semaphore system where years ago people in uniform waved handheld flags to convey messages.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
She was wearing a jaunty shirtwaist, white with small red and blue semaphore flags.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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 looked like he was doing semaphores and flagging down airplanes,” O’Donnell said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2019
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
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
Enrique's Journey Then he sees switches and semaphores.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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
As her advisers and courtiers semaphored behind her to wave off the truth, antiroyalist Hytner smiled sweetly and said, "It's hereditary."
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing erect in the full glare of the searchlight, and apart from his companions, a petty officer semaphored the desired information.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
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