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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But for young people, who are embracing typewriters and vinyl, the glitches are part of the charm.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• His was the first typewriter Mr. Soboroff bought, at auction, in 2005.
  — David Waldstein Desiree Rios, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• The typewriter could carry a value of $150 and up, if working.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
• Okay, so your daughter wants to write like Taylor, but her dorm desk doesn’t quite fit a typewriter.
  — Annie Blackman, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
• After all, a brush is to an artist what a typewriter is to Larry McMurtry.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The singer shared a social media post where she is seen with a typewriter and making edits to a movie script.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 July 2024
• The sound is like a fusillade of manual typewriters, or a hailstorm on a tin roof.
  — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• Butler started writing at the age of 10 and begged her mother to buy her a typewriter.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
• Hanging amid the rifle, whiskey bottle, and typewriter is an air of something gone horribly wrong.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024