Sentence examples for semaphore it from inspiring English sources

Yet when nudity isn't being used as sexual semaphore, it's presented as something grotesque, to frighten the observer and make the subject a symbol of ridicule.

One could say the word "red" aloud, or semaphore it from a cliff, or send it in Morse code, or write the French word "rouge" on a blackboard, or point to a color chip.

It's not Jane Eyre in semaphore, but it's pretty darn close.

Does dressing modestly make you complicit in a patriarchal notion that women's bodies are shameful, or does it semaphore sisterhood by refusing to make party-dressing a body-competitive sport?

By choosing her – acclaimed and bestselling, but also trenchant, highly mannered and somewhat complicated – Céline's creative director, Phoebe Philo, is sending out quite a bracing message, even if the semaphore in which it's written will, alas, be largely illegible to those who know nothing of Didion.

Be it with little semaphore gestures or clumsily stilted walks, it sets a tone: of absurdity, otherness, awkwardness, couldn't-care-less-ness. Sometimes they follow arrow markings on the floor.

I see the gestural semaphore and can read it without having to think twice about it.

It also initializes numStopsMade to 0 and eventWait to a new Semaphore, initially 0. Finally, it sets the interrupt handler for the controls object.

A picture book full of arcane knowledge, it explains semaphore, the communication system of nautical flags and morse code.

It's more efficient than semaphore, maybe, but how much more efficient is it than Morse code?

It combines the semaphore signs for the letters N and D, for "nuclear" and "disarmament," framed by a circle signifying the world.