wigwag

Example Sentences

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Lex not only brought us together but sent us down different paths than we’d been on before he gave us the wigwag.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

Through distributors which the committee branded dummies, it gets its news by wigwag or telephone from the tracks, flashes it by Western Union teletype throughout the country.

From Time Magazine Archive

A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then through the glasses, U.S. sailormen saw a ragged figure, a pair of wigwag flags.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike the "wigwag" system, the whole letter is shown at once.

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell