smoke signal
Example Sentences
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The addition of bell ringing - introduced during Pope Benedict XVI's election - now serves as confirmation and is used alongside the smoke signal.
From BBC • May 4, 2025
“It also raises a smoke signal for people to come home to the places where we can be nourished.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
“He has an ongoing investigation. He has not concluded it. And what he’s doing is he’s issuing a smoke signal that I may have information that is contrary to the report.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2019
It was March 2013, and she was waiting in a cold rain for the Vatican smoke signal that would soon announce the selection of Pope Francis.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2019
She used it to sweep the ground around her, to create a huge cloud of ash that rose up like a smoke signal.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
