How to Use telegram in a Sentence

telegram

noun

• There’s also a telegram from the Beach Boys framed on the wall.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
• The telegram that came back said that Lacy had died the day before.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Cora, the Countess of Grantham, takes the telegram and reads it.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
• Attached to the telegram was a copy of his response to George.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• In June 1951, Lois got a telegram telling her Moore had been shot down.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 15 June 2018
• There was such a telegram, although, in truth, it was sent to Ben Hecht.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2020
• The telegram was received at 11 p.m. the night Lincoln was shot.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• Postcards and telegrams are still in vogue around here.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
• There was no clue in the telegram, or in Johnson’s reply.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• The telegram is dated Jan. 14 but a year is not listed.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2019
• The number of victims in shootouts seemed to multiply on the back end of telegrams.
  — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The following day, the party received a telegram that the King had died.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Later, a cousin sent a telegram about a grocery store for sale for $800 in the Dallas area.
  — Sarah Smith-Ruehle, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2020
• For one thing, the telegrams J. Sam sent the judge were too lengthy and thus burdensome to the telegraph system.
  — Michael Carey, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2018
• Then there’s little section at the end and there’s a picture of me holding the telegram.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• Stockton told Verducci the telegram is framed and still hangs on a wall in his home.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• An old-fashioned Western Union telegram that says, ‘Please join me for the meal of a lifetime.
  — Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2019
• Their deaths shocked the nation, and telegrams and letters of protest flooded into the White House.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• At some point during Boyd’s first two weeks in Volos, the substance of a telegram from Athens was passed along to her.
  — Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Before the age of the Internet, a telegram was the fastest way to send a message without picking up the phone.
  — Molly Ringwald, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• But some instinct for drama, some wish to serve death in a correct way, had made them send a telegram.
  — V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• Sylvia is so deliriously pleased, in fact, that she’s just sent breakup telegrams to their better halves.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 24 July 2023
• So the Major takes it upon himself to shoot up the post office to stop all telegram traffic.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• The grandchild can return a text message which is then printed like a telegram.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Apr. 2021
• At the event, Dylan sent a telegram honoring the drummer.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2022
• The Padres had arranged a pre-game birthday surprise — a singing telegram delivered live on the field.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• Putin on Friday sent Trump a telegram to wish him and Melania a speedy recovery.
  — Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
• The next thing Burns found was a Western Union telegram dated May 15, barely a month later.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 11 May 2020
• George finds a telegram sitting on the cash register that brings the news of Gower’s son’s death from the 1919 flu pandemic.
  — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
• Hundreds of women sent telegrams to King Salman that year, asking him to change guardianship laws.
  — Michael Amon, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024