How to Use telegraph in a Sentence

telegraph

1 of 2 noun
  • I sent the message by telegraph.
  • Myths hold their own in spite of the railroad and the telegraph.
    — Robert Shackleton, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The telegraph line that once ran alongside the track is long gone.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Beyond them were telegraph wires equally laden with these birds.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
  • The day of the week when your lawn is serviced telegraphs rank in the neighborhood.
    — Ben Kesslen, Curbed, 29 June 2026
  • In the first game of telegraph chess, White was defeated.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Ali threw wide, slow blows that arrived on Frazier’s skull by telegraph.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Still another block farther down the street is a telegraph office.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • News of the storm from elsewhere in the state was slow to arrive due to the damage to the telegraph and telephone poles.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2022
  • There were books, waterproof jackets, oil lanterns, a ship’s bell and an engine telegraph.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • Vail’s 1845 book about the telegraph includes a brief report on chess.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • News of the shooting spread instantly, via telegraph, across the country.
    — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Meanwhile, telegraph chess was taken up elsewhere.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Theodore was a cousin of Alfred Vail, co-inventor of the telegraph.
    — Yaakov Stein, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • The storm sparked fires at telegraph stations and prevented messages from being sent.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • The practice is said to have started when Toomer’s Drugs had the only telegraph in the city.
    — Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • There was no telegraph station here then [New Windsor] and of course no telephone.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Before the first transatlantic telegraph cable, messages traveled across the ocean by steamship and took about two weeks each way.
    — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • That night the telegraph network near London collapsed while an aurora lit up the sky.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The rapid progress of the telegraph during the last twenty-five years has changed the whole social and commercial systems of the world.
    — Daniel Schlenoff, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Yes, reports of the demise of letters have been exaggerated as far back as the advent of the telegraph.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 25 June 2021
  • The players received moves by telegraph, and sent responses back over wires that crossed the Atlantic.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2026
  • But in rural Wisconsin, telegraph wires had been burned, and news traveled slowly.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Then a key opened a door to a pull down lever, sending an electro-mechanical telegraph signal to a fire alarm office.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
  • The board’s operator received a telegraph feed from the live game and switched on the appropriate lights.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
  • In some places, the telegraph devices tapped so powerfully that the paper that recorded their signals caught fire.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Even when the telegraph came online a few years later, the pigeon coop remained atop the Herald building.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The town got its name many years earlier when the Western Union telegraph line crossed the Stikine at that point.
    — Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Forecasters sent gale warnings via telegraph to more than 100 stations.
    — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The summit was as bare as a glacier, except for a little house, no more than a hut, built of stone, and nearly empty but for a telegraph machine.
    — National Geographic, 3 Nov. 2020

telegraph

2 of 2 verb
  • The look on her face telegraphed bad news.
  • Please telegraph me when you get there.
  • He telegraphed a message to her.
  • Please telegraph when you get there.
  • He lost the boxing match because he was telegraphing his punches.
  • Worn over a knit polo shirt, the look telegraphed even more ease.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
  • The Chiefs’ head coach telegraphed an opening-drive play.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • One that has been telegraphed all season, and one that took me by surprise.
    — William Earl, Variety, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Rob Manfred has telegraphed this for months.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The large players have telegraphed a lot of these strategies over the last few months.
    — Annika Kim Constantino,bertha Coombs, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Putin has telegraphed his conditions for peace.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Some sort of a ban was expected by many observers and had been telegraphed for years.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
  • White worked over the paragraph a third time, and telegraphed it to the magazine.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • And even that’s telegraphing the offense to some degree.
    — Omar Kelly october 24, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And the group hasn’t telegraphed any interest publicly.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Some other awards bodies have also been telegraphing a shift.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Indeed, the president and those close to him seem to be telegraphing such an approach.
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Cora telegraphed as much as the Red Sox were fighting to clinch their playoff spot.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Caterpillar is doing something the chart has been telegraphing for months.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • Worse still, head coach Ruben Amorim had telegraphed the danger to his players in the lead-up to the match.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • While many of these offerings have been telegraphed for months, Coinbase says the products are now built, and ready to go.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • What once telegraphed cheapness now confers extreme value.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The Fed’s telegraphing higher rates did not help — but the market may also simply have run out of room to run.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • The use of war here is meant to telegraph urgency and seriousness—a willingness to fight.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Still lower rates coming The Fed telegraphed two more rate cuts this year and one in 2026.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Both options would be prohibitively perilous, even before they had been telegraphed for over a week.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The trigger for that came from Powell telegraphing 175 basis points of cuts since last year.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Trump once telegraphed somewhat a positive jobs figure in his first term, drawing criticism.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That scene seems to telegraph a turn in which Ainsley grows up a little, no longer needing her mom to solve every little issue for her.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2026
  • For more than a year, the owners of other major league teams have telegraphed their desire to restrain all that spending, preferably through a salary cap.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026

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