telegraph

Example Sentences

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Security officials urge family members not to telegraph appearances at charity events or to post on social media about vacations or other activities that pinpoint their locations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.

From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025

I had tried to telegraph to the group that coming back was not a given, and I think the fact that a long time that elapsed also made that clear.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

“You’ll have to go to the telegraph office and find that out,” I says.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner