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
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We also found semaphore flags, a vastly outdated way to communicate between units.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
For him, “Underneath the Skin” is a semaphore that signals a presence now too easy to forget.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
He’s doing pretend semaphore, waving his arms in ornate patterns as if I’m supposed to understand some kind of secret code.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
They’re off and racing in stage 18: The road is about five lanes wide and the sun is hot as race director Christian Prudhomme semaphores the signal to start racing.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 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
His red helmet light semaphored the command to follow him.
From Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings
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
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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