secret sign
Example Sentences
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There’s something appealing about a secret sign language being manufactured into cloth used for commerce in clothing or furnishings — an International Clandestine style.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022
The aardvark resurfaces as a similarly secret sign in the relationship between a young Republican congressman named Alexander Paine Wilson and a philanthropist named Greg Tampico.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2020
An Easter egg is a secret sign or clue or whatnot that may be embedded in a game, and Halliday has deliberately created an occasion for egg hunting.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2011
I learned just today that this death sentence bears the secret sign of the Freemasons' Lodge of the Rising Sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some secret sign the members of each clan would know the exact spots where water had thus been buried by their friends, and thus often avoid death by thirst when travelling or hunting.
From Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
