wigwag
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Lex not only brought us together but sent us down different paths than we’d been on before he gave us the wigwag.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
Through distributors which the committee branded dummies, it gets its news by wigwag or telephone from the tracks, flashes it by Western Union teletype throughout the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch.
From Time Magazine Archive
A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is more convenient for windy weather, because the flags are shorter and smaller than the flags of the three-motion wigwag.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Having wigwagged one relaxing message to the West, the Soviet boss felt called upon to resume his menace.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of them wigwagged: "Am I right for Sicily?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Then they hustled on up to Sotheby's in London, where Dickie knocked down a Picasso for $21,600 and Liz wigwagged the winning $120,000 bid for a nice old Monet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guest pianist watched the little tantrum, then, turning towards his wife and friends in the studio, wigwagged his eyebrows and giggled.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lieutenant looked quite startled, wigwagged to a brother officer who was passing and spoke hurriedly to him in German.
From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Nell Speed
Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time, Johnson seemed to be wigwagging a readiness to stop the bombing and enter into talks without advance guarantees or gestures from Hanoi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, to distract batters, he began wigwagging and semaphoring at the plate from his second base position.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were signs that Johnson was wigwagging his open left hand as well as prominently displaying his clenched right fist.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yes, and first thing," said Beany, "Porky was wigwagging me to be careful what I did, and to try to keep the Captain from looking."
From The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by Captain John Blaine
