How to Use telegraphic in a Sentence

telegraphic

adjective

• Each begins with telegraphic entries putting the events of the composer’s life in the context of the broader cultural scene.
  — John Check, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
• The blackboard of the famed physicist Richard Feynman mostly featured an ever-changing mix of math and telegraphic to-do lists.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• There is little or no distancing mat, and surely this helps give the pictures their telegraphic force.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
• Moskovich unfolds this non-linear story through telegraphic bursts of words.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
• Then the introduction of television made the telegraphic era seem quaint.
  — Jon Meacham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• About 160 years ago, people started using ships to lay cables across the ocean and send telegraphic messages to other continents, Vusirikala said.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
• Whirring winds gave way to lush playing from the entire ensemble; telegraphic statements from muted brass yielded to warmly singing phrases from the strings.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• By the 1870s, as the city’s fire department began installing telegraphic alarms on street corners and in tall buildings, the watchtowers fell into disuse.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2019
• Marconi successfully sent the first wireless telegraphic signals across the Atlantic Ocean in 1901.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2020
• Here, then, are 66 of my favorite books, in no particular order, each described with telegraphic succinctness.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• Drummer Taylor’s pulsing backbeat and pianist Davis’ telegraphic chord clusters enriched the texture of this music, though there was no doubt that Vandermark and Revis were its leading voices.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Even the invention and wide deployment of ocean-crossing telegraphic wires in the late 19th century only partially impacted this practice.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2017
• With its near-telegraphic flashbacks and forwards, and first-person narration by an unnamed journalist writing in 1990s present day, Didion’s novel creates the impression of a slow-motion, backward-running film of a land-mine explosion.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Reimagining punk, funk and reggae with analytical rigor, the band set telegraphic lyrics and shards of guitar noise against austerely propulsive beats and syncopated silences.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2020
• Reimagining punk, funk, and reggae with analytical rigor, the band set telegraphic lyrics and shards of guitar noise against austerely propulsive beats and syncopated silences.
  — Jon Pareles, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• The Prada show, anyway, was about refusing telegraphic and concise runway show messages, and instead seeing fashion as an invitation to conversation and thought.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2022
• Media scholars like Daniel Czitrom and Jeffrey Sconce have noted how contemporaneous research linked the emergence and prevalence of neurasthenia to the rapid proliferation of telegraphic news in the late 19th century.
  — Michael J. Socolow, Chron, 10 Mar. 2022
• That could be useful for conversations where telegraphic, ungrammatical messages would come off as impolite.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 18 Oct. 2020
• Both memories are expressed with masterful touches of repetition, achieving a telegraphic poetry.
  — John Domini, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
• Alsop’s orchestral accompaniment built from telegraphic percussive utterances to a majestic finale via a sustained, expertly managed crescendo.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024