cablegram

Example Sentences

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Moves are communicated over long distances — in less technologically savvy times often by handwritten mail or cablegram — and each player has days to make a move.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2012

This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thoroughly annoyed by Mr. Britten, the State Department would have liked to discourage Premier Baldwin from doing more than acknowledge the receipt of the Britten cablegram.

From Time Magazine Archive

About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz