semaphore

That meant learning semaphore to send messages during the day and Morse code for nighttime communications.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

We also found semaphore flags, a vastly outdated way to communicate between units.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023

You’ve probably seen the semaphore system where years ago people in uniform waved handheld flags to convey messages.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

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

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

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

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

As her advisers and courtiers semaphored behind her to wave off the truth, antiroyalist Hytner smiled sweetly and said, "It's hereditary."

From Time Magazine Archive

Two hundred yards distant Charlie Benton rose on a stump and semaphored with his arms.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair

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

At the same time, audacious native-born stage directors like Peter Sellars and Francesca Zambello have replaced the old histrionic semaphoring with bold, psychologically penetrating productions starring fine singing actors like June Anderson and James Morris.

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