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Example sentences for "telegraph"

Lexicographically close words:
telega; telegony; telegraft; telegram; telegrams; telegraphed; telegrapher; telegraphers; telegraphic; telegraphically
  1. In view of the difficulty of communication—messengers from the telegraph station at Livale took about three days to get to Tunduru and five from there to Mwembe—it was difficult to get a clear idea of the situation at Mwembe.

  2. We made use of the time to dismantle a telegraph line in English territory, and to put it up again in our own, in the direction of Ubena.

  3. At New Moshi Station both telephone and telegraph were working day and night.

  4. So the companies ordered up by telegraph from New Moshi had only to be accompanied by their machine-gun and ammunition carriers, a considerable advantage in arranging for their railway journey.

  5. Headquarters remained for the present on the Tanga-Pangani road and connected up to the telegraph line there.

  6. On the night of the 28th October the steamer Kingani surprised a Belgian working-party, who were constructing a telegraph line, and captured some stores.

  7. The temporary telegraph to Mahenge was very inefficient and often interrupted, and it took several days to get a despatch through from General Wahle in Mahenge to the troops.

  8. We could see that there was a telegraph wire from Alto-Moloque to Quelimane via Ili.

  9. He reported that an English light cruiser was lying off Bagamoyo, and had called upon the local Civil Administrator to destroy the telegraph station, threatening to bombard the place in case of refusal.

  10. The halfpenny postage rate for bulky newspapers, for example, or the extension of telegraph offices to rural districts, may be socially useful, but they are unremunerative.

  11. If, for instance, a State has bought telegraph apparatus for far more than it is worth, there can be no reason why the senders of telegrams, and not the whole body of taxpayers, should pay for the mistake.

  12. The newspaper traffic, the parcel post, and the Imperial Telegraph Service are carried on at heavy loss.

  13. The country papers are very jealous (and perhaps somewhat fearful) of the great city papers, although the telegraph has given the country papers an advantage in point of time.

  14. At this time, however, the telegraph business was small comparatively, and the figures indicate generally the result of the reform.

  15. Parliament has also established the sixpenny telegram, extended the telegraph service into remote rural districts, and has given very cheap rates to the Press.

  16. In 1837 a law was passed making every kind of telegraph a State monopoly.

  17. The window of the telegraph office on the canal at Ellenville faces the tow-path.

  18. Although day was breaking and the sky was cloudless, the telegraph operator was still working by the light of an oil lamp.

  19. Nothing could be done but wait patiently for the return of consciousness, and telegraph for nurses.

  20. The morning their letters must have reached, they were starting for a long drive when a telegraph boy cycled up.

  21. A part of the museum equipment of especial benefit to boys in high schools is the wireless telegraph station, which was set up and is kept in working order by boys.

  22. Hall was obliged to leave his helpless wife and baby alone in the unprotected house while he visited the governor, or the Chinese telegraph office (both long distances away), or in trying to relieve or help the Christians in the jail.

  23. News spreads in a marvellous way in Korea, faster than by mail, almost as by telegraph the human wireless flies from mouth to mouth, from hand to hand, and thousands of members were enrolled in every province.

  24. So we sent a swift messenger with a despatch to the nearest telegraph station, twenty-four hours away, to Dr.

  25. Marconi's wireless telegraph station occupies a bleak, rocky promontory extending out into the sea about three miles from the village.

  26. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.

  27. Printing telegraph, an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs.

  28. Defn: A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

  29. Defn: The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

  30. Indicator telegraph, a telegraph in which the signals are the deflections of a magnetic needle, as in the trans-Atlantic system.

  31. Needle telegraph, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.

  32. Submarine telegraph cable, a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water.

  33. Defn: An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.

  34. Defn: A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.

  35. A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.

  36. When he called up yesterday afternoon, the telegraph operator flashed the tip to my man, who happened to be on duty within a few doors of the place the man was talking from.

  37. As he spoke a telegraph messenger entered the yard.

  38. Telegraph your men instantly," he cried, "to get those dollars.

  39. If the Chief of the Radio Service wanted the wireless patrol," said Roy, "why did you telegraph for just the four of us?

  40. I don't know--telegraph to Dick and send out a general alarm, I guess.

  41. I think they had better telegraph ahead and set somebody on the watch," said Songbird.

  42. We'll telegraph again, and keep right on this train," said Dick, and this was done.

  43. They asked at the telegraph office for a message and one was handed over to them.

  44. But I can't do it until seven o'clock--the telegraph office is closed.

  45. I shall telegraph to the attorneys in Rome to partition the estates, my heart!

  46. Telegraph to my uncle and ask him if he will not consent to my keeping you.

  47. I shall telegraph you to-morrow if I intend to return at once.

  48. As the time drew near many of his hours were spent about the wharves or on Telegraph Hill, and every five minutes he was looking for the signal to announce the coming of the steamer.

  49. There was no telegraph by which supplies could be ordered from the East or inquiries could be answered, and several months must elapse before an order sent by mail to New York could be filled.

  50. But all the time, he is paying the greatest attention, and working his secret telegraph for the benefit of Raymond.

  51. From this it will be seen, that the secret telegraph may be used for all games alike, and put in requisition wherever there are spectators.

  52. This secret telegraph is so nearly imperceptible, that it is difficult to describe, and quite impossible to detect.

  53. The telegraph also is equally available, even before the most critical observers.

  54. So he and Miss Vezzis were married with great state and ancientry; and now there are several little D'Cruzes sprawling about the verandahs of the Central Telegraph Office.

  55. The Native Police Inspector ran in and told Michele that the town was in an uproar and coming to wreck the Telegraph Office.

  56. Michele dropped the key of the telegraph instrument, and went out, at the head of his army, to meet the mob.

  57. The General beamed, and chuckled, and Miss Youghal came in, and almost before old Youghal knew where he was, the parental consent had been wrenched out and Strickland had departed with Miss Youghal to the Telegraph Office to wire for his kit.

  58. The booking-clerk said something to the Station-Master, the Station-Master said something to the Telegraph Clerk, and the three looked at him with curiosity.

  59. He got a friend in Peshawar to telegraph daily accounts of the son's health.

  60. All who go to Simla, know the slope from the Telegraph to the Public Works Office.

  61. It is that the telegraph is a luxury which only wealthy people use, and hence whether its rates are high or low is of little account.

  62. In the early history of telegraph companies, many short competing lines struggled and fought for supremacy.

  63. A principal use of the telegraph is to aid the prosecution of business; hence to unduly raise rates is to cause an additional tax on business,--on the carrying on of the processes of production.

  64. In 1859 the Western Union Telegraph Company was formed with the avowed intention of combining these warring companies and making the telegraph business profitable.

  65. A telegraph line is not expensive to erect and maintain, and it gets no monopoly from taking advantage of the most favorable route through difficult country as a railway does.

  66. It has exceeded the most sanguine dreams of its promoters by swallowing up its rivals until the entire system of telegraph communication of the country is practically in its hands.

  67. It is evident that the plan just outlined for railways would be especially well adapted, with but slight changes, for the control of the telegraph lines of the country.

  68. On the other hand it is plain that the public is wholly at the mercy of the monopoly in the matter of rates, and must pay for the use of the telegraph exactly what the corporation asks.

  69. The machine is run by telegraph wires, and it prints upon the tape letters and figures which are abbreviations of the names and prices of all the stocks and commodities dealt in on the stock-exchanges and boards of trade throughout the world.

  70. As soon as it is daylight it would be well to telegraph for Mr. Britton if you know his address, and possibly for Miss Underwood unless he should seem decidedly better.

  71. Just as the train was about to start Darrell saw the man whose peculiar actions he had noticed earlier, leave the telegraph office and jump hastily aboard.

  72. Or telegraph for one of them to come down to you.

  73. He has gone to the telegraph office," replied Thomas Godolphin.

  74. Some confusion, possibly, in the telegraph office in town; and the message, intended for us, has gone elsewhere.

  75. Telegraph to him to start by first train.

  76. Take this yourself with all speed to the telegraph station," he said to Mr. Hurde.

  77. He had just come in from that excursion to the telegraph office.

  78. Her inward thought was, that to have gone to London, and returned again since the hour at which she parted from him the previous night, one way, at least, must have been accomplished on the telegraph wires.

  79. He had not returned since that errand of his, ostensibly to the telegraph office.

  80. Telegraph for him," he said to Lady Godolphin.

  81. The telegraph has been at work pretty well for the house the last hour or so," concluded Mr. Rutt.

  82. The lank person addressed removed his weight from the telegraph pole that had supported it and sauntered forward.

  83. It whistled and rattled down Bean Alley and converted the telegraph wires into cables of ice.

  84. He wrote her full particulars, and asked her to telegraph him if he should go or stay.

  85. The first day I find out I will telegraph you.

  86. DOWN THE SLOPE BY JAMES OTIS Author of "Telegraph Tom's Venture," "Messenger No.

  87. At any rate, I should advise you at the first station to telegraph to Mr. Dumany; I will give you his address.

  88. At present it is sufficient to tell you that the telegraph service has been very full and exact, even in personal description.

  89. They call it a telegraph office, but it is not in that room.

  90. How soon after the firing did you go down to this telegraph office?

  91. Mr. Ross was dispatcher of the road, and they had taken possession of the railroad and telegraph office belonging to the road, and, as I understood it, put a telegraph operator of their own in there.

  92. Did you know where the telegraph was of the railroad company?

  93. General Brinton and his staff was occupying the second story, then, of the telegraph office, and I had my station there.

  94. His attention was called to a poster struck up on a telegraph pole by a certain party, and I rather think it was put up just as a burlesque in the first place.

  95. I think General Brinton did telegraph me; but I do not recollect the details of it at all.

  96. Did they not telegraph you for fifty more additional police?

  97. That what business was done, running what little freight was allowed to come through the telegraph wires, would not be obstructed.

  98. I spoke a few words to the captain and told him to remain there until I came from the city, and he requested me to telegraph him immediately, and send him some orders.

  99. From this time communication by telegraph was kept up by the Governor until his return, and all troops were ordered out in pursuance to general orders given by him.

  100. He gave me orders to remain with General Brinton, while he would go to the telegraph office.

  101. My instructions were to go there, and if I saw a disturbance, to telegraph immediately to the city to the office.

  102. Mr. Watt then requested me to go to the telegraph office, and telegraph to Mayor McCarthy for fifty additional policemen.

  103. Perry took to the solace of a cigarette and stared out at the flying telegraph poles.

  104. I think I have what you call my thought-telegraph perfected, experimentally," he explained rapidly.


  105. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telegraph" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cable; flash; radio; radiogram; send; telegram; telegraph; telex; transmit; wire


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    telegraph line; telegraph office; telegraph operator