semaphores
- present tense form of semaphore (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
Sends and receives messages by means of semaphores and other visual signals.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
