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
On the left shoulder, front, a cluster of schematic semaphore signals evokes his years in the Marines.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
We also found semaphore flags, a vastly outdated way to communicate between units.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023
As Meher Mirza wrote for Saveur, "the word 'curry' is sometimes used in the West as a familiar semaphore, but the term ossifies the immense sophistication and complexity of Indian food."
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
Then the black pup flashed his tail like a semaphore signal and they all jumped on Jello again.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
Today, to help relative newcomers navigate potential April Fool’s foibles, our crack “Now & Then” team shares some quirky codes and stubborn semaphores from “Then” days that persist in the “Now.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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
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
A sailor semaphored with his arms, and the commander of the mine-sweeper sent a message back, and the submarine passed slowly on her way.
From Some Naval Yarns by Mordaunt Hall
She’s waving from the other bank, not semaphoring.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2017
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
Seoul's black-marketeers went imperturbably about their chores, blowing their whistles and semaphoring energetically with their hands whenever a jeep or oxcart hove into sight.
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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