- plural of telegrapher.
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.