distress call
a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc.: Compare distress signal (def. 1).
a communication prompted by or indicating distress: The hospital sent out distress calls for all available stocks of the antitoxin.
Origin of distress call
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How to use distress call in a sentence
Even if their oxygen masks had deployed, there is a microphone in the masks to enable them to send a distress call.
Passenger Flights Must Stop Carrying Lithium-Ion Batteries as Cargo | Clive Irving | May 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever…the failure to send a distress call still undermines the neatness of this picture.
There was no distress call from the pilots, and no previous hint of a technical problem.
Why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Must Have Died Instantaneously | Clive Irving | March 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo distress call was made, and weather was apparently not problematic in the area.
Mistaken Identities And Stolen Passports Aboard Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight | Barbie Latza Nadeau | March 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the horn on a nearby truck blared, he for some reason became convinced it was a distress call from a fellow soldier.
When the pair was grasped, the female emitted a distress call.
Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca | William E. DuellmanA coastal passenger ship off Hatteras sent out a frantic radio distress call.
The White Invaders | Raymond King CummingsA quiet, but squealing distress call was also first noted on the seventh day, when the young were handled.
Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima | Glen E. WoolfendenAs I lifted the four nine-day-old young from the nest for weighing, they began to give the distress call.
Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima | Glen E. WoolfendenOne of these birds gave a chipping note similar to the distress call of adults.
Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima | Glen E. Woolfenden
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