cablegram

Example Sentences

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The foreign ministry in Lisbon began sending cablegrams to Bordeaux, ordering him to desist, amid reports from colleagues that he had "lost his senses".

From BBC

On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY.

From Literature

When Martin betrays Max’s actress sister, Max decides to exact revenge via airmail and cablegram.

From New York Times

Moves are communicated over long distances — in less technologically savvy times often by handwritten mail or cablegram — and each player has days to make a move.

From New York Times

In an hour Columbine dropped down stream and my notion is it was a relief to Wyndham the cablegram arrived.

From Project Gutenberg