NOUN
- an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed
How To Use distress call In A Sentence
- The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- “Separation distress call in the human neonate in the absence of maternal body contact.” The Official Lamaze® Guide
- The crew made a distress call after their 47 foot yacht started dragging its anchor and was in danger of going ashore onto the rocks.
- Lieutenant Uhura, does the location of the distress call correspond with this area exactly? Wink Of An Eye
- The first ship to transmit an SOS distress call was the Cunard liner Slavonia on June 10, 1909, when it went aground on rocks off the Azores. Boing Boing
- I had been making a doe distress call by calling to quickly and making short blats. My first time whitetail hunting I tried using calls but all they did was scare the deer away! WHAT DID I DO WRONG!?!
- Sighing, he strode off homewards, to respond to Anna's distress calls.
- The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
- Officials said there was no indication of the pilot making a distress call. The Sun
- Wasn't the closest port in Indonesia when the ship received a distress call?
