Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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A State Department official points out that the meetings will "telegraph to the boys in Moscow and Peking, however gently, that the Western world is not in disarray."
From Time Magazine Archive
Don’t you think Captain Chowder will telegraph here and get the local Scotland Yard after us?”
From Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water by Ralph Henry Barbour
All you have to do now is to inform the conductor, who will telegraph to stop the train to Paris.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
We will telegraph down for a berth for you.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
I will telegraph my father to go at once and see Mr. Sanden.
From The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? by Frank V. Webster
