Example Sentences

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My Typewriters I write my books not on a computer but on a Smith Corona Electra 210.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Typewriters and adding machines were common by the 1880s, and New York jeweler Willard Legrand Bundy patented the time clock in 1888.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Leicester was attractive - it was prosperous and had jobs available at employers like Dunlop, Imperial Typewriters, and the large hosiery mills.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022

Typewriters, copiers, computers, phones, a veritable “Murder on the Orient Express” of culprits, had conspired to kill it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2018

Typewriters clacked as reporters worked on stories, but two-thirds of the desks were empty.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin