telegrams
- plural of telegram.
Example Sentences
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Officials said the message had left Downing Street correctly but blamed an error in transmission and suggested telegrams should be abandoned altogether.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
There, Susan met Giorgos Xenarios, a goldsmith and jewelry maker 27 years her senior who, after many love letters, telegrams, intercontinental trips and one very firm ultimatum, migrated to the U.S. in 1974.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The White House was flooded with more than 300,000 letters and telegrams denouncing his life sentence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024
At its center, a young, unnamed telegraph operator watches as the beautiful, married Lady Bradeen sends flurries of telegrams, hoping that no one will notice the messages to the dashing Captain Everard.
From Slate • May 27, 2024
Later he learned that the post office in these latitudes was not as reliable as that of far-off England, and that all his telegrams had vaporized en route.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
