How to Use semaphore in a Sentence

semaphore

noun

• The truck hit the rear of the car, rolled onto its side, left the road and hit a semaphore light.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 3 Oct. 2019
• At one point, six of them line up front to back and do a kind of semaphore.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Some of our fleeing units had hauled even more frozen Russian bodies out of the woods and propped them upright, their arms stilled in various eerie semaphore.
  — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
• The badge covers topics such as semaphore, American Sign Language, Morse code and the use of nautical flags.
  — Christopher Mele, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
• By contrast, Trisha Brown’s dancers were taught by her to walk down walls, twirl down poles, semaphore to one another across rooftops, and, quite often, fling their limbs around like bags of wet laundry.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• The semaphore had been transmitting the audio broadcast of Neil Armstrong’s historic moon landing in 1969.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
• Some towns used a clockwork device with no lights at all, while others used the semaphore system, with Stop and Go placards rotating in and out of a housing like mechanical arms.
  — Bob Sorokanich, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2017
• At their disposal are agreed-upon symbols and semaphores.
  — Rick Paulas, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2016
• Customers should be advised to bring semaphores in order to gain the attention of the waitstaff, which seems unaccustomed to any action at all and slightly bemused to encounter actual humans in their midst.
  — Fox, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2012
• Aquatic extinctions happen silently, beneath the surface, lacking any clear semaphore.
  — Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• Hesitation when that spatula is pointed at you could foul up precision operation that hinges on quick ordering and what appears to be a semaphore system of toothpicks that denote exactly what the diner has ordered.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• When inflated, they can also be used as fishing bobbers or signaling devices for semaphore, according to SensiblePrepper.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• Giotto’s figures make simple, resonant gestures that are at once hauntingly isolated — like private semaphores — and vital markers in an unfolding communal narrative.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
• The truck hit the rear of the car, rolled onto its side, left the road and hit a semaphore light.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 3 Oct. 2019
• At one point, six of them line up front to back and do a kind of semaphore.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Some of our fleeing units had hauled even more frozen Russian bodies out of the woods and propped them upright, their arms stilled in various eerie semaphore.
  — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
• The badge covers topics such as semaphore, American Sign Language, Morse code and the use of nautical flags.
  — Christopher Mele, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
• By contrast, Trisha Brown’s dancers were taught by her to walk down walls, twirl down poles, semaphore to one another across rooftops, and, quite often, fling their limbs around like bags of wet laundry.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• The semaphore had been transmitting the audio broadcast of Neil Armstrong’s historic moon landing in 1969.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
• Some towns used a clockwork device with no lights at all, while others used the semaphore system, with Stop and Go placards rotating in and out of a housing like mechanical arms.
  — Bob Sorokanich, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2017
• At their disposal are agreed-upon symbols and semaphores.
  — Rick Paulas, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2016
• Customers should be advised to bring semaphores in order to gain the attention of the waitstaff, which seems unaccustomed to any action at all and slightly bemused to encounter actual humans in their midst.
  — Fox, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2012
• Aquatic extinctions happen silently, beneath the surface, lacking any clear semaphore.
  — Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• Hesitation when that spatula is pointed at you could foul up precision operation that hinges on quick ordering and what appears to be a semaphore system of toothpicks that denote exactly what the diner has ordered.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• When inflated, they can also be used as fishing bobbers or signaling devices for semaphore, according to SensiblePrepper.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• Giotto’s figures make simple, resonant gestures that are at once hauntingly isolated — like private semaphores — and vital markers in an unfolding communal narrative.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020

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