semaphore
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She taught semaphore - a visual signaling method allowing information to be conveyed at a distance - to troops ahead of D-Day and helped to test the Mulberry Harbours used in the invasion.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Whenever someone got into trouble, Barron would unfurl her semaphore flags and signal for help.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
For him, “Underneath the Skin” is a semaphore that signals a presence now too easy to forget.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
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
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
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
Morse, inspired by the French communication system of semaphores, invented the modern electrical telegraph and his famous code and radically changed communications globally.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2011
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
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
I semaphored with my right hand until it was temporarily paralysed; then I turned quietly round and semaphored with my left.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
She’s waving from the other bank, not semaphoring.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2017
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
Apple employees may not talk much, but they’ve been semaphoring pretty furiously lately.
From Forbes ● Jul. 8, 2011
Once, to distract batters, he began wigwagging and semaphoring at the plate from his second base position.
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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