SIGNAL in a Sentence

Learn SIGNAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
163 example sentences for SIGNAL, such as:
1. The signal took instant effect.
2. He awaited the signal to start.
3. The red signal means you can shoot.
4. The radio is giving out a strange signal.
5. A radio signal was sent to the spacecraft.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SIGNAL
signal
 v.  be a signal for or a symptom of
 n.  any incitement to action
Classic Sentence: (129 in 9 pages)
1  The signal took instant effect.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  All were waiting for their hostess to signal the end of the morning's festivities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  So the signal was set to see what response would be made.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
5  The Pequod's signal was at last responded to by the stranger's setting her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
6  For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah's going to Nineveh via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of the general miracle.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
7  When Mrs. Vanni gave the signal, and the harp struck up 'Home, Sweet Home,' all Black Hawk knew it was ten o'clock.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
8  His heart began to pound, but he did not dare to try to signal to them, and neither did Elzbieta.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  Her cries had been the signal for a wild uproar above; the house was full of people, and as he entered the hallway he saw them rushing hither and thither, crying and screaming with alarm.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
10  Duncan caught glimpses of heads above the scattered drift-wood, as this signal rose on the air, but they disappeared again as suddenly as they had glanced upon his sight.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
11  At that moment the woods were filled with another burst of cries, and at the signal four savages sprang from the cover of the driftwood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  The signal was instantly given; and, before Hawkeye had reloaded his rifle, they were joined by Chingachgook.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
13  From this unsatisfactory examination, however, he was soon called by a loud and piercing exclamation from Uncas, that sounded, even to the unpracticed ears of Duncan, as the signal of some new and unexpected calamity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  Heyward abandoned every hope, with the belief it was the signal that they were discovered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
15  When all were prepared, Magua made the signal to proceed, advancing in front to lead the party in person.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Then the rain came and the red flag went up to signal a halt.
2  A thin cable carries the signal to a computer.
3  Our fax machine differentiates between an incoming fax signal and a voice call.
4  If a problem does occur, a signal is automatically sent to the mainframe.
5  The railway signal showed that the train could pass.
6  The radio is giving out a strange signal.
7  A radio signal was sent to the spacecraft.
8  We couldn't locate the source of the radio signal.
9  The recall of ambassador Alan Green was a public signal of America's concern.
10  Upon the signal, the subjects were asked to recall as many consonants in their correct places as possible.
11  The red signal means you can shoot.
12  In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
13  An air traffic manager reported to the Air Force that he had a signal from an emergency beacon.
14  He had no choice, even though this simple act might signal their presence to an enemy; they could not pick up something that would rot feet or infect skin.
15  He awaited the signal to start.