telegram

[ US /ˈtɛɫəˌɡɹæm/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛlɪɡɹˌæm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a message transmitted by telegraph
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How To Use telegram In A Sentence

  • As Jamie Baker reported in Thursday's Telegram, since the rules allowed it, Rideout thinks the whole idea is just tickety-boo. Rideout defends 5K gift of public cash
  • As soon as she was back in England at the Stone House, Dame Beatrice sent a reply-paid telegram to Mrs Biancini: Spotted Hemlock
  • Though each had written to me commendatory letters and telegrams that were far more generous than I could possibly deserve, yet neither ever expressed to me, verbally, any compliment beyond, “Well, so far, you seem to be doing alright.” Going Home to Glory
  • I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?".
  • Sinclair received a telegram from a man named George Brasfield, who had lost his job or objecting to the distribution of anti-Sinclair literature. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches from Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
  • The telegram from the Red Cross arrived at noon and its yellow envelope sent a chill through her heart.
  • This story, which is at the core of Ghost Ships, was pieced together by McNab from fragments of correspondence, telegrams and an extensive examination of steamship logbooks of the period.
  • Perhaps the addressee already knows the information in the telegram because he has been watching over you.
  • Young Thomas delivers telegrams for a living in the ‘furthest outposts of the British Empire’ while dreaming of New York.
  • These telegrams ordered my father to go to Peking at once, but, as the river to Tientsin was frozen, it was out of the question for us to go by that route, and as my father was very old and quite ill at that time, in fact constantly under the doctor's care, the only accessible way, via Chinwangtao, was equally out of the question, as it was a long and most tedious journey and quite beyond his strength. Two Years in the Forbidden City
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