How to Use teletype in a Sentence

teletype

noun

• The page was torn off the teletype at that point, no doubt to be saved for future reference.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
• And there was this teletype terminal, which is just a printer and a keyboard, no screen.
  — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
• A half dozen New Jersey state troopers, in response to the July 31 teletype, filed into the squad room.
  — Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
• That morning, newsrooms across the United States erupted with the ringing of bells on teletype machines.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• The officer sent out a teletype about the missing car and told the man to contact the dealership to obtain ownership proof and the license plate number.
  — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019
• The center is now filled with war-era uniforms, pictures and other items, including the teletype machine that Parker says printed out the notices when the boys were killed.
  — Alan Suderman, The Seattle Times, 20 May 2019
• News flowed slowly before the internet age; teletype machines clacked out stories at 66 words per minute.
  — Jay Reeves, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• At that time, broadcasts of away games were based in the Brooklyn studio, via teletype communication with the actual game site.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• Baudot’s teletype machine, also called a teletypewriter, used a five-key keyboard, write Froehlich and Kent.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
• In 1961, state of the art communications consisted of landlines and teletypes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 July 2019
• At first, the fun of being at a newspaper, where I was hired as a clerical worker, was knowing stuff ahead of everyone else, as news bulletins lurching forth from the teletype machine pretty much set the tone and the pace of the day.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2019
• In 1943 Bell Labs discovered that a teletype machine would cause a nearby oscilloscope's readings to move every time someone typed on it.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 21 June 2020
• The device, called a teletype, was essentially a mechanical typewriter that displayed text on a glass screen.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2020
• There was the endless wire service teletype equipment spitting out news, the chatter of typewriters and telephones constantly ringing.
  — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
• Players wrote their moves on a teletype, a typewriter electronically connected to the computer, which both printed the moves on paper and sent them to the computer.
  — Noah Wardrip-Fruin, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2021
• In his acceptance speech, Ken described Roberta taking him to dinner after playing a text adventure game on a teletype machine, and sharing her vision for what a video game could be.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2017
• His elementary school had a teletype machine that was connected to a mainframe computer.
  — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 2 May 2018
• In 2008, what started during the Cold War as a teletype messaging system became a secure system for transferring messages and documents over fiber-optic lines.
  — Bloomberg, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• As Mercury capsules flew around Earth, controllers in Florida could communicate with remote monitoring sites in far-away places like Zanzibar—but only with a few words at a time, sent via teletype.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 July 2019
• Their secrets were accessible only via punch card and teletype terminals.
  — Margaret O'Mara, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2018
• Among the collectibles offered will be a Western Union telegraph and a collection of original press teletype wire bulletins announcing the Kennedy assassination.
  — Steven Wayne Yvaska, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• As technology evolved, so did that process, with AP eventually transmitting vote counts by teletype to centralized race-calling operations on the East Coast.
  — Meg Kinnard, ajc, 1 Nov. 2022
• Meg was also on the board of an organization supporting deaf children, which inspired her to give Glover’s character a deaf daughter who communicates with him using a teletype machine.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• His mother, Carrie (Hibel), a teletype operator, later changed their surname to Lipton.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• His mother, Carrie (Hibel), a teletype operator, later changed their surname to Mr. Lipton.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Those Americans who hid in the room during the takeover rendered the equipment inoperable, removing and destroying individual components of the telexes — teletype machines that could transmit messages over phone lines to the rest of the world.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Some used teletype machines— the mechanical descendants of telegraph operators—as a way to transmit or print out information.
  — Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 23 July 2019
• In March 1974, Hong Kong police officers sent an urgent teletype to American law enforcement authorities.
  — Cindy Chang, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2020
• Back then, mainframe computers were so expensive, most companies could afford only one, and employees communicated with it via clunky teletype.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024