How to Use telegram in a Sentence

telegram

noun

• Dad sends a whole bunch of telegrams and keeps copies of them.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
• The telegram that came back said that Lacy had died the day before.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Chase tried to tamp the flames by denying the telegram was sent, but to little avail.
  — Anne Halsey, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
• Attached to the telegram was a copy of his response to George.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• There’s also a telegram from the Beach Boys framed on the wall.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
• There was such a telegram, although, in truth, it was sent to Ben Hecht.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2020
• The number of victims in shootouts seemed to multiply on the back end of telegrams.
  — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The grandchild can return a text message which is then printed like a telegram.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Apr. 2021
• Stockton told Verducci the telegram is framed and still hangs on a wall in his home.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Then there’s little section at the end and there’s a picture of me holding the telegram.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• But telegrams still had to be human-delivered.
  — Sachin Gupta, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• Cora, the Countess of Grantham, takes the telegram and reads it.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
• At the center of the show is Sylvia, who sets the plot in motion with a couple of telegrams.
  — Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026
• The flight of Apollo 8 can best be expressed by a telegram received by the crew.
  — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• Olivia de Havilland sent regards by telegram from her home in Paris.
  — Katherine Yamada, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• The following day, the party received a telegram that the King had died.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• It was shared widely on Facebook and the telegram messaging app.
  — Anna Lukinova, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• In June 1951, Lois got a telegram telling her Moore had been shot down.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 15 June 2018
• So the Major takes it upon himself to shoot up the post office to stop all telegram traffic.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• Kurson tells of the astronauts receiving thousands of telegrams in the wake of their trip.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
• Part of the blame may go to Morse code, that dashingly dotty system used for sending telegrams.
  — Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 23 July 2019
• The Padres had arranged a pre-game birthday surprise — a singing telegram delivered live on the field.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• Later, a cousin sent a telegram about a grocery store for sale for $800 in the Dallas area.
  — Sarah Smith-Ruehle, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2020
• Moore’s answer did not please some members of a right-wing Weber County telegram group.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2021
• Hundreds of women sent telegrams to King Salman that year, asking him to change guardianship laws.
  — Michael Amon, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• Their deaths shocked the nation, and telegrams and letters of protest flooded into the White House.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• An old-fashioned Western Union telegram that says, ‘Please join me for the meal of a lifetime.
  — Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2019
• Before the age of the Internet, a telegram was the fastest way to send a message without picking up the phone.
  — Molly Ringwald, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• That includes the latest, a channel on telegram called Project Mayhem.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Its rider leaned low over the saddle, carrying a bag packed with 49 letters and 5 telegrams.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026