Examples of telegram in a Sentence
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
Only the first half of his prediction proved correct: Stanton and his team immediately began sending out telegrams rallying soldiers and detectives to hunt down Booth.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
But a telegram sent to the War Department on the morning of April 24 shifted the search’s focus to Virginia.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Schneider then read a telegram from Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi, who was the head of the North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks.
—Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
Image To many, landline phones have come to seem as essential as steamships and telegrams in the smartphone era.
—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
The telegram to Friar Park provides the coda to the correspondence.
—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Items up for sale include photos of Boyd, Harrison and Clapton, as well as postcards, telegrams and letters.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
Their deaths shocked the nation, and telegrams and letters of protest flooded into the White House.
—USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
Noun
Agam was last seen on a Hamas telegram video being led on October 7th to a car while still in her pajamas.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
Only the first half of his prediction proved correct: Stanton and his team immediately began sending out telegrams rallying soldiers and detectives to hunt down Booth.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
But a telegram sent to the War Department on the morning of April 24 shifted the search’s focus to Virginia.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Schneider then read a telegram from Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi, who was the head of the North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks.
—Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
Image To many, landline phones have come to seem as essential as steamships and telegrams in the smartphone era.
—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
The telegram to Friar Park provides the coda to the correspondence.
—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Items up for sale include photos of Boyd, Harrison and Clapton, as well as postcards, telegrams and letters.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
Their deaths shocked the nation, and telegrams and letters of protest flooded into the White House.
—USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Telegram.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telegram. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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