typewriter

[ US /ˈtaɪˌpɹaɪtɝ/ ]
[ UK /tˈa‍ɪpɹa‍ɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time
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How To Use typewriter In A Sentence

  • This letter was typed on an electronic typewriter.
  • The Enigma machine looked like a typewriter in a wooden box, with an electric current travelling from the keyboard through a set of rotors and a plugboard to light up the ‘code’ alphabet.
  • IBM has been located in Guadalajara since the 1950s, when it began to make those ‘golf ball’ electric typewriters.
  • Matt is not the bespectacled nerd who taps out columns about dog poo in parks at his typewriter in the evenings.
  • He wrote up a report (on a typewriter, whose ribbon he destroyed afterwards) and sent it to the US embassy in Bonn.
  • These specially equipped rooms, located in Rooms 377 and 379, contain typewriters, braillewriters, text enlargers and magnifiers.
  • There must have been pages upon pages of typewriter paper filled with romance, horror, fantasy and tales of the strange.
  • In 1888, the typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.
  • Just this morning we took delivery (from a very nice chap named Mike) of three vintage typewriters.
  • We did have several electric typewriters, and we used the better of the two computers to keyboard accepted manuscripts.
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