Hear the clatter as we pass the semaphores and switch lights!
One afternoon ever-active semaphores transmitted a piece of intelligence which set the peninsula agog.
At the Coal Mines was the northernmost of that ingenious series of semaphores which rendered escape almost impossible.
The final blow was given by railways and electricity to the old line of semaphores stretching between Portsmouth and the Admiralty, and elsewhere, and from headland to headland.
When the red and white lights of the ardois signal system are flashing at night or the stiff arms of the semaphores are throwing themselves about in a helter-skelter fashion day or night it is not wise to ask what they are saying.
Mary watched for awhile and then emulated him, so that two figures were presently engaged in an occupation that suggested nothing so much as a pair of railroad semaphores gone mad.
Hindhead was in the direct line of signalling semaphores between Greenwich and Portsmouth before the days of the electric telegraph, and every day at one o'clock the time was passed down from the Observatory.
Evening drew on, and the semaphores were busy waving invitations to dinner from ship to ship.
They formed his creed and recreation: the flag-lockers were tarpaulin-covered shrines; the semaphoresspoke oracles by day as did the flashing lamps by night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semaphores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
