Sentence examples for like a semaphore from inspiring English sources

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

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

Standing now, closing in, I waved the bamboo rod like a semaphore — backcasting once, twice — and then threw the line.

"A year or so ago he'd be waving his arms like a semaphore operative even if his middle stump was hurtling towards the slips".

The story ends on a hopeful note, as so many of the stories here do — this book, with its cover divided neatly into black and white like a semaphore yin-yang symbol, is at least as interested in human kindness as it is in cruelty.

Without ostentation, he creates a new body, a new temperament: he loosens up his neck and shoulders and swivels his head; his smile becomes enormous and all-embracing; he holds an elbow out and pumps a forearm up and down like a semaphore as Milk speaks in public.

If the CD of the Week has an informative element with a recommendation implicit, the CD of the Month is the equivalent of my waving my arms like a semaphore-gone-wild, trying even harder to recommend a recording.

The topography and the black-and-white design cunningly suggest the psychic division in the gaunt, chain-smoking widower Edward Carr (the compelling Ed Harris), who stands before us on the painted gray floor, taking drags on a cigarette and waving away the smoke screen before he speaks — a semaphore that, like everything else here, is emblematic of the self-destructiveness to come.

semaphore_destroy - Destroy a semaphore.

The result is expressed through a semaphore.

semaphore_signal_all - Wake up all threads blocked on a semaphore.