1.   Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word - sign equivalent existed.

2.   At our house, the first sign of spring has nothing to do with robins or the tinge of green in what passes for our lawn.

3.   Because electronic signs have yet to be introduced, it is unclear whether the sports leagues will allow them or whether advertisers will go for them.

4.   Because Ms. Ogden was ill and had signs of liver damage, her doctors recommended drug treatment.

5.   In the nearly two generations since reserved seating disappeared and the multiscreen theaters took over, rituals and signs have emerged.

6.   Mounted atop steel poles, the signs have the look of permanence.

7.   Nobody strolling on Worth Street seemed aware of it Thursday, maybe because the signs had yet to be put up.

8.   Not all the signs have to be mean spirited.

9.   Only the sign had a telltale letter in error.

10.   Some signs had pictures of the black men killed by police.