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

The figure 1, like the wigwag dot, is a quick sweep of the flag to the right, from the perpendicular to the level of the waist, or one quarter304 of a circle.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)