How to Use Morse code in a Sentence

Morse code

noun

• Texting isn’t Morse code — the goal is not to use as few words as possible.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Beepers and Morse code are also involved.
  — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• Think of it as sort of a Morse code if, for lack of a better term, but think of it as a Morse code.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Two whale sharks, the largest fish on the planet, glided around me, their blue-gray skin a Morse code of chalky dots and dashes.
  — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• Many couples use it as their own kind of signal—like a personal Morse code for affection.
  — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
• In a 1916 study, Navy soldiers seemed to better learn Morse code when it was played overnight.
  — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
• Bumblebees can separate dot-like and dash-like flashes in a way that resembles Morse code.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
• Another great way to train your Morse code skills is to, obviously, listen to some Morse code.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• Grace Allow yourself a moment to imagine a Morse code of diamonds.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 6 Oct. 2022
• Some used verbal cues or lights flashing in Morse code to present math problems to their sleeping subjects; others asked yes or no questions.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, the in-room light fixtures grew out of a Cornell alum's science project, and the lamp bases have the school's fight song in Morse code.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2021
• This disconnect has consequences beyond whether someone else can understand your Morse code version of a song.
  — Tommy Blanchard, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
• Zhi claimed for his system an efficiency similar to that of Morse code— quick, intuitive, and transparent. News of Zhi’s feat spread, galvanized by the political fervor for science and technology that broke out after Mao’s death in 1976.
  — Jing Tsu, Wired, 23 Jan. 2022
• First used to send messages over land in 1844, Morse code outlived the telegraph age by becoming the lingua franca of the sea.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
• The messages in Morse code were picked up by other ships and receiving stations onshore, which helped to save the lives of about 700 people who fled in life boats.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The messages in Morse code were picked up by other ships and onshore receiving stations, helping to save the lives of about 700 people who fled in life boats.
  — Ben Finley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Morse code rendered in diamonds offers a modern interpretation of secret language.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• Internet users created more than 100 versions of it translated into Morse code, Braille and even emoji.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• And let’s pound on the walls that are adjacent to the living room where Mom and Dad are sitting as if we’re trapped in a submarine trying to communicate via Morse code!
  — Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Aug. 2024
• Rather than just resetting them in the traditional way, Tarpin put them in a thin titanium bracelet, with the stones spelling out his mom’s name in Morse code (the client was a fan of sailing).
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
• Its faint dip dip dip is barely detectable as a small team of engineers and scientists scramble to their stations and listen, trying to decipher the message, delivered through Morse code.
  — Cathy Alter, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2023
• Two streetlamps engaged in a mute but luminous dialogue, an indecipherable Morse code, alluding to the silent exchanges and secret ciphers of strangers who meet there for their trysts.
  — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
• In one experiment with sensors attached to index fingers, a volunteer was able to send messages using Morse code, with a bent finger representing a dash and a straight finger a dot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
• Subtle nods to the tech-forward campus location are woven throughout, from lamps with Morse code messages to neon lighting inspired by Cornell alumni inventions.
  — Laura Parker, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• In an attempt to save the lives of those in the flooding shelter, Major Brittle rapidly flickered lights, like Morse code, trying to get the attention of helicopters.
  — Sophia Leone, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication by transmitting messages in Morse code over wires.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
• Because aphasia affects a person’s ability to use symbols — whether words, sign language, musical notations, even Morse code — the condition can be difficult to work around.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• Read full article Matson also recommended stopping by to see Morse code jewelry by designer Liz Stewart.
  — Kajsa Kedefors, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• On the Internet, speculation proliferated about where Niemann might have stashed a device that could vibrate in a kind of Morse code, offering hints from an associate.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• On the other side, German agents based in the UK gathered intelligence and encoded it into yarn using knots, following a system similar to Morse code.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2020