Sentence examples for a semaphore from inspiring English sources

The shirt, once a totem of humiliation, is transformed into a semaphore of hope.

For Bill, as Clapp poignantly plays him, the gesture is a semaphore from another planet.

"Poolly what?" she said, moving her lashes up and down like a semaphore.

The brow has evolved further into a semaphore of fashion awareness.

His finish brings his left leg up astern like a semaphore, while his arm swings back across his waist.

In his long fingers, a cigarette becomes a sceptre, a flick of the wrist a semaphore of desire.

Depp, too, has a special sprint, waving his arms in a helpless semaphore — not like a girl, but like a schoolboy's mocking impression of a girl.

The evolutionary challenge for a fiddler crab is to produce a conspicuous semaphore that retains its utility as a formidable weapon (the problem of how to design a "beautiful weapon"; [ 10]).

Each tower was equipped with a pair of telescopes, one pointing in either direction, and with a two-arm semaphore (a word derived by Chappe from the Greek for "bearing a sign").

Mr. Korie's lyrics are laced with the argot and codes of an earlier subculture, in which gay co-workers found one another by discussing the Ziegfeld Follies on breaks; lesbians endured tweed suits till May; and a red tie worn on Riverside Drive was a sexual semaphore.

He mugged and pranced, often with an outlandish semaphore worthy of a professional wrestler.