How to Use distress signal in a Sentence
distress signal
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In dire need of fuel and food, the crew finally sent up a distress signal.
—Dera Menra Sijabat, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
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Flags should always hang freely but never with the stars down, except as a distress signal.
—The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
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Three minutes later, the tower saw smoke coming from the crash site, but the aircraft did not send any distress signal.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
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The universal distress signal with a whistle is three short blasts in succession.
—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2023
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The Libra eclipse on the 14th sends an initial distress signal around your health, or potentially around a toxic work situation.
—Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
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When asteroid debris kills the other passengers and strands his vessel on a Cretaceous-era Earth, Mills contemplates whether or not to even send a distress signal for help.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Mar. 2023
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Martin County Sheriff's Office's dispatch received the distress signal from the 38-year-old man's cell phone, which gave only the longitude and latitude of the incident.
—Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
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Another feature that will be available through this system is a distress signal, which a driver can initiate by pushing a button.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2018
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The telegraph produced the first standardized distress signal: …---… or SOS in international Morse code.
—Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
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A number of theories have surfaced to explain the sudden loss of the warship—so sudden the ship apparently never sent out a distress signal, despite having a radio manned 24 hours a day.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
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An emergency locator beacon that emits a distress signal didn’t trigger on impact.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
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Broadcasting a false distress signal over maritime radio is a violation of international code and, in the United States, a federal Class D felony.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
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Stranded at sea, the crew members eventually managed to restore the ship’s communications system and transmit a distress signal, drawing two Chinese fishing vessels to their aid.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
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