How to Use typewriter in a Sentence

typewriter

noun

• For many of us, the phone call over the past few years has gone the way of the telegraph and the typewriter.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• There were cheers for the close-up of her red typewriter.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
• The typewriters are straight out of Naked Lunch as well.
  — Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
• The good guys—or at least the likable guys—were the ones behind the typewriters.
  — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
• One day, she was asked to try out a new kind of typewriter in the newsroom.
  — Rebecca Chace, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• In the 1970s, Joe wrote papers by hand or on a typewriter.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2018
• The traces were found on the corners of the page, where Orwell would have pulled it from his typewriter.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
• The writer turns and looks at the page sprouting out of his typewriter.
  — Alex Martin Smith, ajc, 8 Oct. 2017
• Dan has a typewriter because that was a fad for a while.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
• As each one does, bookies will go the way of the typewriter in the computer era.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
• The Chairman is here, and she’s brought her typewriter.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
• The computer, the IBM typewriter just types them one at a time.
  — Audra J. Wolfe, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
• Goines’ mother gave him a typewriter to use in his cell.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
• Key Specs At first glance, the Mistel looks bizarre, like the love child of a typewriter and an old-school pair of headphones.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• In the film version, the noise of a carriage return on a typewriter covers the curse word.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2022
• Page 1, Act 1, blank sheet of paper rolled into a typewriter, to the last cut of the last edit.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 May 2024
• What was the first novel to be written on a typewriter?
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• At 90 degrees to the command centre of the desk was a typewriter with the blank paper set.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• Caro works on a Smith-Corona typewriter and marks up his drafts by hand.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2024
• No longer able to use a typewriter, Shepard wrote his first drafts by hand.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2017
• The third is funny, with woodblocks and even a typewriter.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Running off at the typewriter … Will somebody please tell these golfers to get with it?
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
• The mystery gift turned out to be a vintage typewriter.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Plus, people had to take time to write them all down with a typewriter or in longhand back then.
  — Todd Shields, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• That’s where the idea for the typewriter comes from, and later the computer keyboard.
  — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2016
• The letters are white typewriter font, and there are large, red crosshairs behind them.
  — Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• So, Betty sets Rivervale's Jughead up with a typewriter in the bunker and seals him in.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• At one point, a Temple House denizen spills ink on Petrie’s typewriter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• On his first day at Random House in 1984, there was a typewriter waiting for him at his desk….
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• National letters of intent have gone the way of typewriters, rotary telephones and dinosaurs.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025