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
The route we shall take is by the cattle steamer from Esbjerg to Harwich, from which latter place I will telegraph.
From A Danish Parsonage by John Fulford Vicary
We will telegraph when there is any change.
From The Camerons of Highboro by Beth Bradford Gilchrist
I will telegraph and have a mileage book put at your disposal that you can call for right there in your station in the morning.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
In the mean time he will telegraph to Claridge's, some faint remembrance lingering with him of Dorian's having made mention of that hotel as being all any one's fancy could possibly paint it.
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
