How to Use Morse code in a Sentence

Morse code

noun

• To see the dresses was to see a calendar in Morse code.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Think of it as sort of a Morse code if, for lack of a better term, but think of it as a Morse code.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Thibodeau didn’t have to blink his message in Morse code.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• Texting isn’t Morse code — the goal is not to use as few words as possible.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Two whale sharks, the largest fish on the planet, glided around me, their blue-gray skin a Morse code of chalky dots and dashes.
  — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• Meanwhile, the in-room light fixtures grew out of a Cornell alum's science project, and the lamp bases have the school's fight song in Morse code.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2021
• The messages in Morse code were picked up by other ships and onshore receiving stations, helping to save the lives of about 700 people who fled in life boats.
  — Ben Finley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Grace Allow yourself a moment to imagine a Morse code of diamonds.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 6 Oct. 2022
• Some used verbal cues or lights flashing in Morse code to present math problems to their sleeping subjects; others asked yes or no questions.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2021
• Rather than just resetting them in the traditional way, Tarpin put them in a thin titanium bracelet, with the stones spelling out his mom’s name in Morse code (the client was a fan of sailing).
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
• Internet users created more than 100 versions of it translated into Morse code, Braille and even emoji.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• The telegraph produced the first standardized distress signal: …---… or SOS in international Morse code.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• Its faint dip dip dip is barely detectable as a small team of engineers and scientists scramble to their stations and listen, trying to decipher the message, delivered through Morse code.
  — Cathy Alter, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2023
• On the other side, German agents based in the UK gathered intelligence and encoded it into yarn using knots, following a system similar to Morse code.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2020
• On the Internet, speculation proliferated about where Niemann might have stashed a device that could vibrate in a kind of Morse code, offering hints from an associate.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Because aphasia affects a person’s ability to use symbols — whether words, sign language, musical notations, even Morse code — the condition can be difficult to work around.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• Zhi claimed for his system an efficiency similar to that of Morse code— quick, intuitive, and transparent. News of Zhi’s feat spread, galvanized by the political fervor for science and technology that broke out after Mao’s death in 1976.
  — Jing Tsu, Wired, 23 Jan. 2022
• Read full article Matson also recommended stopping by to see Morse code jewelry by designer Liz Stewart.
  — Kajsa Kedefors, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024