distress flare

There was a small tube, meant originally for a distress flare, but with another possible use.

A bag of distress flares had not been opened.

He lit one of his suit's distress flares and added, "Can you see me now?"

That was my distress flare being fired up out of New Mexico.

An aircraft responded to distress flares and contacted surface ships in the area.

Distress flared in her eyes then faded to melancholy.

Five survivors fired a distress flare and were rescued by the frigate.

They were rescued after rebuilding a survival radio and using distress flares to signal for help.

The boat carried no lifejackets or distress flares, he added.

Distress flares indicated a high percentage of survivors.

Tammi, now the sole survivor, fires a distress flare in the hope of being rescued.

Distress flared in his eyes- more distress than his nerves could handle.

A weak distress flare that couldn't have been seen a mile away and probably was designed that way.

No distress flares smoked in the sky.

He reached up to the signal locker above the chart-table and brought down a cardboard packet of distress flares.

Steppenwolf distracted the guard by throwing a distress flare at the controllers.

We can evade capture, send out distress flares."

Twelve hours after that, a passing freighter saw the distress flare fired from the lifeboats and picked up the crew.

USS Davis later sighted a distress flare and took on board the 31 survivors.

While that report was in progress, the survivors in Pacocha fired a red distress flare.

Séduisants distress flares added to the confusion and delayed the fleet's passage until dawn.

Crouching down, to keep below window level, I looked around and saw what I wanted right away - a metal box of distress flares.

To hundreds of others who saw it Wednesday night, it looked like a shooting star, a distress flare, a meteor, a ball of fire.

Distress flares.

In plants, azelaic acid serves as a "distress flare" involved in defense responses after infection.