wirelesses
- plural of wireless.
Example Sentences
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We had one phone in the hall, wirelesses and typewriters; we wrote our essays by hand and we weren’t forever on call, stressed, agitated, panicking and with a squillion, brain-mashing choices to make.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2016
But in London last week, a considerable fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Correspondents filed endless wirelesses, but no event of real importance disturbed the word-painted ship upon its word-painted ocean.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"You still putting your faith in those wirelesses your uncle was going to have zigzagging round?"
From Flappers and Philosophers by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)