Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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“If you indicated insider knowledge of gay life, you were telegraphing that you were gay.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
“Effectively what that means is that the Fed is not going to be in the position to normalize rates at the extent they were telegraphing only a week and a half ago,” said Kenny.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
It was dark, he could not see; but those wonderfully sensitive finger tips, that were ears and eyes to Jimmie Dale, were telegraphing a wild, mad, amazing message to his brain.
From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
No doubt could remain that two parties of Indians were telegraphing messages back and forth, and that they were understood by each party.
From Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Officials at their desks were telegraphing cipher dispatches to England to furnish vessels of war on hire, which she politely refused to do.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
