NOUN
- an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed
How To Use distress signal In A Sentence
- Failing all this, raising and lowering your outstretched arms at your side is an accepted international distress signal.
- Your best chance of rescue is by sending a distress signal that gives your exact location. Times, Sunday Times
- Hence his cheery greeting to a posse that were hoisting distress signals at such an early hour. Times, Sunday Times
- The airline confirmed that no distress signal was sent. Times, Sunday Times
- People traffickers steer leaky rubber boats towards the vessels and then send a distress signal to summon rescuers. Times, Sunday Times
- Air traffic controllers picked up distress signals from the airliner shortly after it crossed into Greek airspace yesterday afternoon. Times, Sunday Times
- The crew did not send out any distress signals.
- People traffickers steer leaky rubber boats towards the vessels and then send a distress signal to summon rescuers. Times, Sunday Times
- Maybe enough cylon blood surfaced in Bobby Zimmerman to send out the distress signal to set the wheels of destiny (that is if destiny was a hotrod) in motion. A Brief Comment About BSG
- Even if the means could be found, there were reasons why they might never attempt to beam a distress signal into space.