semaphore

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

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

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

Edward pushed a door open, and there was the yellow brass bed and the old semaphore banners from college and a very musty raccoon coat which he stroked with muted affection.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

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

Witness the fact that mayoral candidates Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan both sport similarly silver quiffs and it’s clear that grey hair no longer semaphores drabness within the political realm.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 4, 2016

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

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

The seaman semaphored a reply, which was evidently satisfactory, for, rubbing his hands gleefully, the Lieutenant-Commander followed his guests down the narrow hatchway.

From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

She’s waving from the other bank, not semaphoring.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2017

Though we’re trying to connect, it feels like I’m standing on one side of a rushing river and she’s on the other, semaphoring her thoughts across at me.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2017

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