signaller

Example Sentences

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She was told a dog had just been found and after making a phone call the signaller broke the good news.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2023

Words you love are dying all over the place, yet this centuries-old signaller of faux-intelligence and an incoming garbage opinion prevails.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2017

Graham Hobbs is head gardener for Scotland at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: his grandfather was a boy signaller at Jutland.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2015

Displays are largely comprised of gestures, which can be broadly defined as distinct bodily movements that do not physically manipulate the receiver toward the goal of the signaller.

From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2014

The Ladysmith chief signaller, Captain Walker, rapidly came into communication with the signallers on Swartz Kop, and Sir George White was informed of the satisfactory progress of the advance so far.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis