Example Sentences

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When the Titanic hit an iceberg while crossing the Atlantic in 1912, its telegraphers desperately sent out distress calls hoping somebody, somewhere might hear them.

From BBC • May 21, 2023

Roberts commissioned an annual count of the number of words filed by telegraphers from the Masters pressroom to compare with that of the U.S.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 8, 2020

Late in that round, Firpo knocked the 192-pound Dempsey through the ropes into the ringside of reporters, photographers and telegraphers, the scene that inspired the artist George Bellows’s celebrated painting.

From New York Times • May 1, 2015

Johnston, undoubtedly a man of ambition, succeeded as a publisher by capitalizing on the insecurities of telegraphers.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2014

I had not gone far when I turned up an envelope directed to him on which was some printing saying that it contained a pamphlet about books for telegraphers.

From Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Carleton, Clifford