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Example sentences for "stenography"

Lexicographically close words:
stencilling; stencils; stenographer; stenographers; stenographic; stenosis; stent; stente; stentorian; step
  1. And would he recommend stenography or magazine work, and which did he consider preferable, as a career which such a young lady might follow without injury to her social standing?

  2. She might take lessons in music, or art; her aunt would hardly care for her to learn stenography now, or go into magazine work.

  3. She decided that most of them were earnest-minded but intelligent serfs, not much stronger than the girls who were taking stenography for want of anything better to do.

  4. Except as practice in stenography she found their conflicting religions of little value to lighten her life.

  5. I was pleased with my achievement in respect to the latter, as I had determined to take up stenography and typewriting as a profession.

  6. To describe steps with precision, it is necessary to use a system of choro-stenography not easily learned, or to refer to positions of the feet.

  7. The stenography system that I studied is Munson's.

  8. Last year I pursued a course in stenography which I enjoyed very much.

  9. Stenography (or bookkeeping) is a more important study than wood-working.

  10. I can't decide whether to take up stenography or if bookkeeping is better.

  11. There are painting departments, and a metal working room, and also bookkeeping and stenography classes.

  12. Thus an older pupil, studying stenography and typewriting or bookkeeping, might go to the school office and do an hour of real work, helping one of the clerks.

  13. The work for the students in office work is now extended to include stenography and typewriting and business methods.

  14. She is studying stenography now, so that she can keep on living in the old home and take care of little Jack.

  15. Any one that can master stenography can easily compass that.

  16. Again, the study of stenography requires constant and critical attention, thereby strengthening the mind and doing away with idle day-dreaming.

  17. Stenography as a study is not really difficult.

  18. The elevating and benevolent influence of stenography and typewriting in the life of women is becoming more and more recognized.

  19. There are several benevolent institutions in this city where Stenography and Typewriting are taught during the day, without expense to the student.

  20. Taken up stenography and gone into the office of a ship-building gang!

  21. I studied that hateful stenography and learned to play a typewriter.

  22. He gave me his confidences before I offered mine, sketching a career in which stenography figured as no more than the handmaid to a passion for biological research.

  23. Stenography being taught at the Settlement, she had taken it up on hearing of several authenticated cases of girls who had gone into offices and married millionaires.

  24. Speed and accuracy in stenography and typing.

  25. Stenography and typing, he quickly saw, were mere incidents to her.

  26. An ivory penholder and gilt nib had no charms for her, so the humble vulcanite of the stylograph of her stenography days was selected, and she prepared to write.

  27. Often she had to accept "free lance" stenography and typing, and not infrequently auxiliary clerk work of a humdrum and narrowing order.

  28. We will set up the Florentine School of Stenography and Typewriting.

  29. If you are going to start the Florentine School of Stenography and Typewriting, you may as well start it on a proper basis.

  30. Stenography shows the highest for women; machine work the lowest.

  31. Of the skilled occupations listed in the table stenography and typewriting offers the largest field of employment, yet the number who are likely to take up this kind of work does not exceed five or six.

  32. The plan to take up a course in stenography and enter an editorial office was to have been, as a matter of course, a part of her life closely associated with Peter.

  33. He worked on this theory for some time, even making a trip to Boston in search for her in the stenography classes there, but nothing came of it.

  34. She inclined to stenography and typewriting; but Ellen, who knew her better than any one else, had looked surprised on learning that she considered this means of earning a livelihood.

  35. And if you didn't like stenography probably you got a good deal out of the course though you don't appreciate it now.

  36. But you can be a secretary with only moderate skill at stenography if you have other qualifications.

  37. And he was sure he had found the best school at which she could study stenography and shorthand, only a few minutes in the cars from here.

  38. On her failure to do good work at stenography she laid much emphasis and ended by asking for advice regarding the best way to earn her living.

  39. We had no near relatives for Edith to go to and she had to take up stenography to support herself and--and change her name, Mr. Santoine, because of me.

  40. No, no; I do stenography for Mr. Avery sometimes, as I wrote you.

  41. If you want me to, I'll go at stenography and typewriting at once.

  42. How would you like to take up stenography and typewriting?

  43. Seems to me stenography was all right yesterday!

  44. I bet she knows as much about stenography as a bunny!

  45. Her experience in stenography was, throughout, unfortunate and was making her see in almost everything that happened a slight to herself.

  46. I just want to tell you, Ma, I'm done with stenography forever.

  47. She studied stenography and soon married a promising young man.

  48. The financial need directed her training into practical lines; she studied stenography and was fortunate in securing a position in the office of John Evanson, the energetic senior member of a growing leather-manufacturing firm.

  49. She preferred the prosaic reality of stenography and typewriting.

  50. The engraved title-page is ornamented by eleven emblematical pictures, and stenography is declared to be "Swifter than the swift of foot" (Amos ii.

  51. Under such circumstances no one need be surprised that one of his children is imprisoned for theft, and the other is walking the streets, while Tupin himself is driven to drink.

  52. It is to preserve the family that society condemns the natural child.

  53. As long as Annette's condition is not noticeable, life is bearable; but soon everybody remarks her state.

  54. When we began to get short in the house, my wife and I started to quarrel.

  55. If you drive Annette out, I shall go with her.

  56. I only had ten minutes to do it in, at the recreation, at ten o'clock and at two o'clock; and when my mother brought baby to me I had to shut myself up with him in a dark closet.

  57. He proves that his earnings at best are not enough to supply the needs of an already large family.

  58. Every time a child came we were mad at making it worse for the others.

  59. As long as you've not changed that, all your circulars will be met with shouts of derision--half from hate, half from pity.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stenography" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.